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Borth Sea Defences a Success

Alan Cole — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:24:28 +0000

We went for a walk along the beach last night with the Scouts and I’d say that the new sea defences in Borth have almost certainly helped protect Borth from the recent storms. Some of the large boulders within the defences have moved slightly. The pebble banks that were extended and built up as part...

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Borth Coastal Defence Scheme Progress

Alan Cole — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:41:55 +0000

I’ve just been looking at the weekly reports from BAM Nuttall on the progress of the Borth Coastal Defence Scheme and all seems to be progressing well. Groyne 1: is complete Groyne 2: is complete Breakwater 1: Not Started Breakwater 2: The majority of the toe armour is complete with the toe armour to finish...

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Borth Rocks!

Alan Cole — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:30:32 +0000

I should have posted some photos of this ages ago, but the unloading of rocks from the large barges out at sea continues in Borth. For the last few weeks there have been two very large Norwegian barges moored on the horizon, about 4 nautical miles offshore. Every high tide, both night and day, two...

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Barge Unloading at Borth

Alan Cole — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:45:15 +0000

This morning I popped down to see the small barge bringing in rocks from the much larger barge anchored offshore from Borth. I had expected the large barge to come closer to shore, but it was still out on the horizon and the much smaller ‘Charlie Rock’ barge was being manouvered into position by a...

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Barge for Borth Sea Defences

Alan Cole — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:19:29 +0000

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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Borth Coastal Defence Scheme Updates

Alan Cole — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:52:55 +0000

Work is still progressing well on the Borth Coastal Defence Scheme. The weather has been good and the delivery of rock from Norway on a huge ship is expected to start around March 31st. Another interesting development is the construction of a temporary causeway that will go out to the Multi-Purpose Reef, and then be removed when the reef...

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Huge Ship to Visit Borth

Alan Cole — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:03:53 +0000

In order to cut down on hundreds of lorry loads of rock armour for the Borth Coastal Defence Scheme, a huge ship from Norway carrying 42,000 Tonnes of Rock Armour will arrive by sea (weather permitting) on the 23rd March and again around the 29th March 2011. I’ve heard that BAM Nuttal the main contractors of the...

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Borth Sea Defences 20th March 2011

Alan Cole — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:23:46 +0000

We had a little walk along the beach on Sunday morning to check out progress on the sea defences. It was a grey day and the tide was farily high so we couldn’t really see much in the way of progress. The beach has been built out quite a way at the southern end of Borth...

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Borth Sea Defence Scheme – March 5th

Alan Cole — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:09:11 +0000

Anna was working on Saturday so couldn’t join us for our weekly walk along the beach to check on the progress of the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. My parents were here though and hadn’t seen any of it yet so as usual we drove from Ynyslas to Borth, parked up on the road and then...

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Borth Sea Defences – Feb 26th

Alan Cole — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:20:09 +0000

The weather has been good for work on the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. We have had a couple of really high tides over the last week or so but fortunately the weather was calm so it didn’t cause too many problems. The contractors did place some large rocks around the area that they park the...

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