EA at work

Dependent on your browser a single click on a picture displays it at full screen. To return to this screen either press the Esc(ape) button or click the picture ‘X’. More pictures and video available on YouTube.com Search under 'Medmerry brings up numerous lnks. I have uploaded in area known as http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88D23799119205ED More pages available by following the links near the base of each page to Older(New) Posts.

http://youtu.be/uOOYn3J_7Ds

Above I have included the address of a video clip of the EA works in action from which i snapped this still. It is on You Tube just copy and paste into your browser.

Narrow shingle bank

In another image you can see how only six days earlier the crest of the shingle bank was twice as wide at the same height. During these 6 days we had no storms just wind runs of 60miles for 3 days. Shingle that has 'disappeared' from here probably will materialize along at Bracklesham Bay. I call this lateral drift. I do hope S.O.S. member John Napper who under the watchful, eyes of Roland and Co. extend the scientific survey on shingle movement, using their stones that are fitted with transponders. These in-turn are monitored and the recordings are subsequent plotted and mapped and can be viewed in programs as Google Earth, etc.

Waiting for the tugs and barge

I was told by the one of the EA contractors that."this 'mother ship carries a working capacity load of 20000 tons". Additionally I was informed the total amount being landed is 60000 tons.

I have included video clips on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88D23799119205ED

Wide shingle bank

unlike another image (19/1/2012) the shingle bank is twice as wide. The sea and waves are just so powerful.

Question, whats greater machines or rocks

Rocks piled high at the Earnley end of Medmerry Beach. Prior to being placed in the fiels where the new sea defences will start!

These are spare if you want for the rockery

Just enlarge the image and you can see the size of these rocks.

There are several associated clips on You Tube

We used to have shingle, we now have a rockery

This Pile is where the stones are unloaded from the barge, Then specific rocks are then moved to the pile further down the beach. Then they are taken into the fields to be positioned ontop of Geo-textile matting as part of the sea defences

Preparing for the breach at Medmerry

Four contractors or EA personnel looking at the area that is due to be flooded when the breach is made. The three articulated dumper trucks are being filled with clay type soil. You can see the excavator busy in one of the fields. This is then deposited where the bulldozer is waiting. It then levels the soil and every now and then the large Road-roller runs up and down to leave a compacted but muddy surface. there is a video clip on You Tube

Its on its way

One little tug, one giant barge

http://www.jenkinsmarine.co.uk/handfast.html

http://www.mibau-stema.de/images/file/Charlie%20Rock(4).pdf

20000tons off Medmerry

The mother ship, still pretty full after 3 barge loads had been delivered to shore

Power. Splash that

The power of the Machine. The power of the vibration when the rocks hit the water and shore.

Bunns, Sea defence under construction