{"id":7205,"date":"2011-03-07T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2011-03-07T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T07:27:50","slug":"bort-sea-defence-scheme-march-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/bort-sea-defence-scheme-march-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Borth Sea Defence Scheme &#8211; March 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna was working on Saturday so couldn&#8217;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&#8217;t seen any of it yet so as usual we drove from Ynyslas to Borth, parked up on the road and then walked South examining the Sea Defence works.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7206\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Borth Sea Defence Scheme Panorama\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7206 \" title=\"borth_pano\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano-400x85.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Defence Scheme Panorama\" width=\"400\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano-400x85.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano-120x25.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano-1024x220.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/borth_pano.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea Defence Scheme Panorama<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks as though work is progressing well. In addition to the huge mounds of gravel and pebbles, the large rock groynes and one of the fish-tail shaped breakwaters are beginning to take shape. The rock groynes that run\u00a0perpendicular\u00a0to the beach are club shaped and the rounded ends of a couple of these are beginning to be constructed. The contractors have been digging out the sand, and with it quite a but of the submerged fossil forest, to create a kind of foundation for the ends of these club-shaped groynes. Looking at the plans they dig down around 4-5 feet and then put in a &#8216;geotextile&#8217; membrane before infilling with rocks. The rock infill itself is fairly complex with different grade rocks for different areas of each structure. I&#8217;m not sure what the geotextile membrane is for, presumably to stop the sand from gradually washing out from underneath it all and the rocks gradually sinking into the sand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7216\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Rock Groyne Towering over Morgan\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rock_groyne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7216\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7216 \" title=\"rock_groyne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rock_groyne-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Rock Groyne\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rock_groyne-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rock_groyne-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rock_groyne.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock Groyne<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7210\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Geotextile Membrane under the rocks\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/membrane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7210\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7210 \" title=\"membrane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/membrane-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Geotextile Membrane\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/membrane-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/membrane-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/membrane.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geotextile Membrane<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7213\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Excavation foor footings\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7213\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7213 \" title=\"pool\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pool-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Footings\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pool-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pool-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pool.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Footings<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could also just about see the outline of one of the large fishtail breakwaters as well. This is just a low level structure at the moment, but will eventually be as tall as the rock groynes which are now beginning to dominate the shoreline. Now that things are beginning the take shape we can really see just how much this scheme is going to change the look of the beach, it really will be quite a substantial change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7207\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Fishtail Breakwater taking shape\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fishtail_seawall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7207\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7207 \" title=\"fishtail_seawall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fishtail_seawall-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Fishtail Breakwater\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fishtail_seawall-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fishtail_seawall-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fishtail_seawall.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishtail Breakwater<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7217\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Sea Defence Scheme Works\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rocks_on_beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7217\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7217 \" title=\"rocks_on_beach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rocks_on_beach-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Beach\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rocks_on_beach-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rocks_on_beach-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rocks_on_beach.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocky Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7215\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Rock-strewn beach\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roack_on_beach2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7215\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7215 \" title=\"roack_on_beach2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roack_on_beach2-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Rock-strewn beach\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roack_on_beach2-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roack_on_beach2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roack_on_beach2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock-strewn beach<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As they dig out the sand for the foundations, a huge pile of sand and muddy, peaty fossil forest is being collected on top of the beach near to the station. I&#8217;m not sure what the plans for this material are, but I&#8217;m surprised that there isn&#8217;t a little more fuss being made about the destruction of the submerged forest. I realise that there is little option, but it does seem pretty destructive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7209\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Borth's Submerged Fossil Forest\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fossil_forest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7209\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7209 \" title=\"fossil_forest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fossil_forest-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Fossil Forest\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fossil_forest-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fossil_forest-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fossil_forest.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fossil Forest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also wonder what will happen over the summer as far as the tourists are concerned. I&#8217;d imagine many of them will head up towards our end of the beach away from the work, making Ynyslas very busy. It&#8217;s certainly\u00a0going\u00a0to be an interesting time for Borth &amp; Ynyslas.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan was with us on our walk and where they have been digging and driving on the beach with their machinery, parts of what were hard packed sand have become\u00a0disturbed\u00a0and areas of muddy-peaty, organic matter from the fossil forest has been exposed.\u00a0At one point Morgan managed to stand in one of these patches, got his foot stuck and lost his shoe. It was then left to me to have to enter the mud to retrieve it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7211\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Morgan\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/morgan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7211\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7211 \" title=\"morgan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/morgan-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/morgan-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/morgan-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/morgan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7212\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Morgan's Lost Shoe\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7212\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7212 \" title=\"mud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mud-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Shoe\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mud-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mud-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mud.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lost Shoe<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7208\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Wet Muddy Foot\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/foot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7208\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7208 \" title=\"foot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/foot-120x79.jpg\" alt=\"Wet Foot\" width=\"120\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/foot-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/foot-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/foot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wet Foot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After inspecting the Sea Defence Scheme we walked along the High Street, had lunch in the Frame Shop and then had a browse in the Pine Centre before heading back to Ynyslas where the beach felt very quiet and untouched. Morgan flew his kite for a while as he wanted to show it off to my Mum and Dad, by which time Anna was home from work so we settled down for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna was working on Saturday so couldn&#8217;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&#8217;t seen any of it yet so as usual we drove from Ynyslas to Borth, parked up on the road and then&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,4,10],"tags":[47,897,778,31],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-family","category-wales","tag-borth","tag-sea-defence-scheme","tag-sea-defences","tag-ynyslas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Borth Sea Defence Scheme - March 5th - A Simple Life of Luxury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/bort-sea-defence-scheme-march-5th\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borth Sea Defence Scheme - March 5th - A Simple Life of Luxury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anna was working on Saturday so couldn&#8217;t join us for our weekly walk along the beach to check on the progress of the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. 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