Coastal Defences Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/coastal-defences/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:25:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Coastal Defences Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/coastal-defences/ 32 32 2696646 Barge for Borth Sea Defences https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/04/barge-for-borth-sea-defences/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/04/barge-for-borth-sea-defences/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:19:29 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=7465 The barge that is carrying 21,000 tonnes of rock for the Borth Sea Defences is still moored about 5km offshore from Borth. We can see it on the horizon. There is a also smaller barge with it that will be ferrying in loads of rock at each high-tide (wind and waves permitting) and dropping them off...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/04/barge-for-borth-sea-defences/feed/ 2 7465 Borth Sea Defences https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/02/borth-sea-defences/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/02/borth-sea-defences/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:36:31 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=6969 Work has begun on the new Sea Defence Scheme in Borth so we took a walk there at the weekend to see what was happening. The plans are to build several large rock groynes perpendicular to the water line in place of the existing wooden groynes, along with 6 large fish-tail shaped breakwaters further down...

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