{"id":2280,"date":"2014-05-11T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T08:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2014-05-11T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T08:40:29","slug":"did-dawlish-sea-wall-fail-due-to-lack-of-groynes-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/did-dawlish-sea-wall-fail-due-to-lack-of-groynes-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Dawlish Sea Wall Fail Due To Lack Of Groynes? &#8211; May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of Dawlish show there are few, if any,\u00a0 groynes which allows the sea to erode the sea wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2293\" title=\"dawlishSeaWallFromAir\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromAir.jpg\" alt=\"dawlishSeaWallFromAir\" width=\"621\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromAir.jpg 621w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromAir-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2294\" title=\"dawlishSeaWallFromLand\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromLand.jpg\" alt=\"dawlishSeaWallFromLand\" width=\"616\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromLand.jpg 616w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallFromLand-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2292\" title=\"dawlishSeaWallAndBeach\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallAndBeach.jpg\" alt=\"dawlishSeaWallAndBeach\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallAndBeach.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallAndBeach-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dawlishSeaWallAndBeach-1024x804.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking around Tendring in North Essex, some places have well designed and maintained groynes &#8211; and a good beach with lots of dry sand in front of the sea wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2290\" title=\"jaywick\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jaywick1.jpg\" alt=\"jaywick\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jaywick1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jaywick1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAt other places the groynes have not been maintained which leads to<\/p>\n<p>The level of sand dropping and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2289\" title=\"hollandOnSea\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hollandOnSea1.jpg\" alt=\"hollandOnSea\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hollandOnSea1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hollandOnSea1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the sea wall failing like this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2291\" title=\"2007_queensway_holland\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2007_queensway_holland.jpg\" alt=\"2007_queensway_holland\" width=\"604\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2007_queensway_holland.jpg 604w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2007_queensway_holland-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nor this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2288\" title=\"diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall.jpg\" alt=\"diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall\" width=\"1048\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall.jpg 1048w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diggerFallingInHoleSeaWall-1024x648.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the failure of the sea wall at Dawlish is no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this was<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0\u00a0 Neglect<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0\u00a0 Policy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of Dawlish show there are few, if any,\u00a0 groynes which allows the sea to erode the sea wall. &nbsp; Looking around Tendring in North Essex, some places have well designed and maintained groynes &#8211; and a good beach with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/did-dawlish-sea-wall-fail-due-to-lack-of-groynes-may-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,86],"tags":[60,215,59,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyshiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}