The moving beach

[DavidofMersea]

The strong wind of the Beast from the East has caused quite a lot of erosion along Mersea beach, and moved much of East Mersea beach to West Mersea. So if you want to go to East Mersea beach, you know where it is now

 

[matthewriches]

Lol. Been working in Chatham today and tomorrow on a dredger. Blokes were saying how busy they are going to be over the next few months.

Best get the wheel barrows out and start giving East their beach back!

 

[Guise]

Not just East Mersea, plenty of other places have apparently lost their beaches http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-43316394. so where has all the sand gone (unless its all at West Mersea or on the Corton Sands
)?

 

[nortada]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

Same beach. Two weeks apart, after one storm!

 

[WF36]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

Same beach. Two weeks apart, after one storm!

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Bloody Nora!

 

[CCJ]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

Ostend often replenish their beach& didnt Clacton do similar 3 or 4 yrs ago

 

[alant]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

Ostend often replenish their beach& didnt Clacton do similar 3 or 4 yrs ago

The whole of Jutland's west coast is continually replenished with a fleet of dredgers & sand pumps.

 

[Old Harry]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

The whole of Jutland's west coast is continually replenished with a fleet of dredgers & sand pumps.

So its seems to me to be a non story would you agree

 

[FulmarJeddo]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

In the past wooden groynes were built on beaches and nature used longshore drift kept them topped up with sand and shingle. It seams to be a method that has been dropped in many places now.

 

[alant]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

So its seems to me to be a non story would you agree

Well, Jutland is effectively just a big sand dune peninsular at one side of the north sea, which because of the prevailing winter storms, is each year chucked back into the sea. I spent a summer on a workboat involved in the replenishing. The dutch seem to have a similar situation in some areas & have built up expertise & infrastructure capable of moving sand mountains. A couple of lorry loads off Mersea is just a hiccup.

 

[DavidofMersea]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

Well, Jutland is effectively just a big sand dune peninsular at one side of the north sea, which because of the prevailing winter storms, is each year chucked back into the sea. I spent a summer on a workboat involved in the replenishing. The dutch seem to have a similar situation in some areas & have built up expertise & infrastructure capable of moving sand mountains. A couple of lorry loads off Mersea is just a hiccup.

I live on the beach at West Mersea, and about 50 yards to the west is a large surface water drain pipe. Sand has swept down from the east and is now piled up against this drain pipe, and it is lot more than a couple of lorry loads

 

[LittleSister]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

In the past wooden groynes were built on beaches and nature used longshore drift kept them topped up with sand and shingle. It seams to be a method that has been dropped in many places now.

The trouble, it was found, is that stopping erosion at one place, is also stopping the supply of material to replenish the beach somewhere else. All in all, once one place on a soft and 'dynamic' coastline has sea defences, you end up needing them everywhere else, too. (There are, of course, local complications/variations.)

Eventually it all becomes unbearably expensive and decreasingly effective. The trouble is, while it is generally recognised that the powers that be were, overall, fighting a losing battle, it is politically very difficult to get agreement to stop defending any one particular place.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

What goes around comes around... I was born and bought up in West Cornwall, and there is a beach there that will be rocks one year and sand the next... for the cognoscenti, it's Nanjizal

 

[alant]

Re: Porto do Mos Beach The Algarve

I live on the beach at West Mersea, and about 50 yards to the west is a large surface water drain pipe. Sand has swept down from the east and is now piled up against this drain pipe, and it is lot more than a couple of lorry loads

Expect flooding upstream then, unless you can find your bucket n spade.