Comparing photographs of the beach at Holland Haven taken in 2011 and 2013 suggest the level of sand has risen .
In 2011 I posted photographs of beaches and groynes at Frinton, Walton, Holland and Clacton, to show there were good beaches where there were good groynes and bad beaches where the groynes had been left to decay (at Holland and Clacton north of the pier).
Here are photographs of 2 locations at Holland, taken at in October 2011 and April 2013.
It seems to be the level of sand has risen at least 6 inches, maybe a foot. What do you think?
location 1 October 2011
April 2013
location 2 October 2011
location 2 April 2013
Despite the local paper carrying a story of falling sand level in Walton, the sand at Fisherman’s point near Frinton is extremely high.
Bear in mind this is the wall that Environment Agency want to knock down!
There are no groynes to be seen in the above photograph. As the Environment Agency are responsible for the coast between Frinton and Holland-on-Sea, I guess they must have destroyed them. No doubt they didn’t want to spend money maintaining groynes where they plan to knock down the sea wall.
In any case EA believe groynes don’t work. Which makes it kind of hard to believe EA will fund building groynes at Holland and Clacton, especially if they have to stump up £22million.
Groynes do work.
Here is a photograph at the southern end of the whalings, looking north. This is a stretch of coast maintained by Tendring District Council. The level of sand is clearly several feet higher to the north of the groyne compared to the south (in EA bit).
They say if you tell people something often enough, then people will belief it.
Personally I prefer to believe the evidence of my own eyes.
