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Category Archives: Breakwaters
Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches Local Meetings October 2012
Holland Residents Association and Clacton & Holland Beach Hut Association had meetings this week. I spoke about sea defenses at both meetings. Holland Residents Association was on Monday 22 October. To say I was asked to speak at short notice … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters, Groynes
Tagged breakwaters, clacton beach, holland haven beach, holland-on-sea beach, tendring district council
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Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches – A Project Engineers View
Trevor Bright has also been concerned about the state of the beach. He sent me an email last week which I have reproduced below. Trevor’s experience seems especially relevant – in his own words: “Whilst I was working for BP … Continue reading
Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches 19 October 2012
Here Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches September 2012 I posted about what had been happening over the summer since July when Mike Badger wrote to beach hut owners at Holland Haven to say steps were going to be removed as the … Continue reading
Holland-on-Sea and Tendring Beaches September 2012
In July 2012 Mike Badger of Tendring District Council wrote to beach hut owners at Holland Haven saying the sea wall, which had been assessed as “marginally stable” in 2011, had been inspected again in late June 2012 revealing “irregularities … Continue reading
Holland Haven Sea Wall – Will Tendring District Council Let The Sea Destroy It?
I have been sent a copy of a letter Mike Badger, Engineering Services Manager at Tendring District Council, wrote to some beach hut owners at Holland Haven. Mike writes Following storms in April/May 2011 structural engineers advised the sea wall … Continue reading
Broken Groynes Mean Poor Beach At Holland-on-Sea Even At Low Tide
There was a particularly low tide on 9 May 2012. Here is how the beach looked at 8:30am at Walton-on-the-Naze. The sea is a long way from the Albion groyne, probably about 30 yards. At Holland Haven around 9am the … Continue reading
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Tagged breakwaters, clacton beach, groynes, holland-on-sea beach, walton beach
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Groynes And Beaches At Walton Frinton And Holland-on-Sea
There are clear differences between the beaches at Walton, Frinton, Holland and Clacton. There are also differences at different sections of the beach at Walton and Holland. A FOI request revealed that 4 times more has been spent repairing the … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters
Tagged breakwaters, frinton beach, groynes, holland haven beach, holland-on-sea beach, walton beach
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Repaired Groynes At Holland On Sea
I reported the results of FOI request to TDC to find out how much had been spent repairing groynes (or breakwaters) in Frinton, Holland and Walton This didn’t tell me which groynes had been repaired. So I made another FOI … Continue reading
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Money Spent On Wooden Groynes At Holland-on-Sea, Walton-on-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea Since 2004
I have blogged about the state of wooden groynes (or breakwaters) at Holland-on-Sea compared to Walton Frinton Clacton south of the pier The groynes at Holland seem to have been totally neglected and as a result the level of the … Continue reading
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Snow On Beach At Walton Shows Sea Doesn’t Reach Sea Wall At High Tide
Snow fell in Tendring on the night of 4/5 February 2012. This picture of the beach at Walton-on-Naze was taken about 8:30am on 6 February, so there had been at least 2 high tides since the snow fell. And this … Continue reading
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