Bolstering sea defences needn't be expensive

OVER the years I have watched the television coverage on BBC South Today of the Environment Agency using a bulldozer to push up shingle on Climping Beach in a futile and expensive attempt to protect the coast from erosion.
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Jul 2010, 11:49 BST
Updated 1st Jul 2010, 11:49 BST

Within my own experience and observation, when heavy seas pound shingle beaches, the powerful undertow sucks back the loose stones, while large waves carry some over the high water mark.

This is why I cannot understand the futile repetition of shoving the shingle up in a loose heap, in the hope that this will protect the shoreline.

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What, in my opinion, are really needed, are strong wire baskets/containers, filled with stones and perhaps cement, to prevent the loose shingle being swept back into the sea.

This seems a cheaper, but less permanent, remedy to piling up huge boulders, or building adequate walling.

E. Harvey,

Shirley Close,

Rustington

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