Sea has eroded part of path running in front of seawall at Seawick
EA response was to put rocks in front of sea wall! This is entire pointless as the sea can not reach these rocks yet.
By the time the sea can reach these rocks, after it has eroded the rest of the path, the rocks will simply fall into the sea.
The sad thing is the solution has been known for hundreds of years, build groynes.
Even worse the solution has been successfully used a few hundred yards to the north at Seawick.
And a few yards further north at Jaywick
So the recipe is
- Don’t pile rocks agains the sea wall
- Use rocks to build groynes perpendicular to the sea wall
- Ensure the groynes are higher than the sea at high tide
- Don’t build the groynes too far apart
At Seawick groynes have been built correctly
and incorrectly
What’s been done wrong?
- Instead of building a groyne perpendicular to the sea wall near the shop, a reef has been built off shore.
- The reef is too low, it is covered by water at high tide – this means it won’t stop the sea moving sand.
Here you can see the weed all over the reef by Alan Underwood’s shop.
Here is a groyne where the lower part, the part sometimes covered by the sea, has sea weed growing on it.
In summary
The sea is eroding land at Seawick
EA and TDC are doing nothing
EA and TDC have already built rock groynes at Seawick which successfully defend the coast against the sea.
EA and TDC have built rock groynes at Seawick which DO NOT WORK, and done absolutely nothing to rectify the situation.
Could this be because EA plan to either knock down seawall at Seawick or let it fail? environment-agency-plan-for-tendring-coastline-by-2105-may-2013
This is so very sad, I have lived at st.Osyth beach all my life and it used to be one of the most beautiful beaches, lovely and sandy, clean and well kept. Now u have to build stone castles, and dodge many dangers, of what remains of this once beautiful beach, which now brings me great sadness and is unsafe for my children to play on. Something needs to b done befor it is to late, the dream of my boys now running the businesses on the beach with their mum, as I have been doing with my dad, Alan Underwood all these years, at the moment feels impossible, as each year more and more of this beach disapears, I find this very very sad 🙁 if we don’t shown the next generation that we want to