The actual flow of water acts as agroyneand helps to bank up the coastline.
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Sea-walls were undermined, groynes disintegrated and the natural protection of sand and shingle could not be maintained.
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There is no question about it; there are groynes and there will be groynes.
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We do not know what sort of groynes to put up, or what sort of beach defences.
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It needs the establishment of only onegroyneto cause a different movement of shingle.
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Should there not be a policy of using metal or concrete groynes rather than mahogany groynes?
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I am not talking about a few new groynes, a few lorry loads of shingle and keeping the promenade in good repair.
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In the last two years we shall have spent nearly £2 million on cliff stabilisation and beach andgroynerepairs.
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No one person can evaluate replacing hard engineering walls and groynes.
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The second option is to continue rebuilding hard engineering structures, such as groynes and sea walls.
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The old works which had been removed were groynes which had been sunk in concrete in the foreshore properly faced.
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The result was that during those periods the groynes disappeared and the concrete foundations of the ramparts against the sea were undermined and collapsed.
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In the past we have seen local authorities who, for economy reasons, spent £1,000 on erecting agroyneor sea wall.
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If we improve a piece of sea wall here, or put a newgroynein there, the effect is apparent further down the coast.
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If you remove any projection into the sea, whether a sluice, or agroyne, or a pier, it may have a tremendous effect on your coast protection scheme.
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