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Shoreline Management Plan

UK May 2012 Rain – Holland Brook Floods Despite The Drought

On Monday 30 April I posted about EA plan to breach sea wall between Frinton and Holland. During the week it rained a lot and by Friday there were floods all over Tendring. 5 May 2012 From Holland Road, Great … Continue reading

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Holland Brook – What Would Be The Effect Of Breaching Sea Wall At Holland Haven

This map shows that Holland Brook reaches as far the A120 near Horsley Cross. View Larger Map This larger scale map shows how Holland Brook runs very close to the railway line at Thorpe-le-Soken, even running under the line at … Continue reading

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Graphs And Rates Of Sea Level Rise Around UK

Previous posts have featured graphs of sea level rise and quoted rates of sea level rise for East Anglia. Here I have produced graphs and a table of rates of sea level rise for all stations around UK for which … Continue reading

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Charles Beardall Of EA Says Devereux Farm Part 2 Will Not Proceed For Now

The title says it all. Cllr Bucke                                                                   14 November 2011 Kirby Le Soken Dear Cllr Bucke I am extremely grateful for the time you have spent recently with both me, at our meeting in September and with Sharon to explore … Continue reading

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Are DEFRA Predicitions of Sea Level Rise Wrong?

In an earlier post, Are Sea Levels Rising – You Can Check Using Simple Arithmetic, I compared the observations of sea levels at Felixstowe with the DEFRA 2006 predictions. The trend at Felixstowe is falling, so here are the graphs … Continue reading

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Prediction Using Fitted Functions Can Be Very Wrong

I have made several posts about sea levels and salt marsh in Kirby le Soken. This post was prompted when I read a report about an earlier attempt to recreate salt marsh by breaching a sea wall at Tollesbury (google … Continue reading

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Eric Schmidt and Labels

In his MacTaggart lecture Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, criticised UK education and the tendency to split into two camps luvvies and boffins. This neatly follows on from my last post (jeremyshiers.com/blog/who-are-the-scientists) where I talked about human beings habit … Continue reading

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What Is Saltmarsh?

The Environment Agency want to flood part of Devereux Farm in Kirby le Soken as they say rising sea levels are causing ‘coastal squeeze’ which is killing saltmarsh. So what is saltmarsh? At low tide it looks like this And … Continue reading

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Making Waves At Devereux Farm

News of the campaign has been spreading out, largely due to the protest walk. Last week Richard Steward from the Blythe Estuary Group heard about us and rang TDC to ask for someone who he could contact. For whatever reason … Continue reading

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