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@Margaret Swift So lets say a local cafe had been asked to supply on site food the day after the storm they would have a few hours notice to supply the means to deliver this service. NR are geared up for these events they have catering companies who where on the road ready to go in hours fully stocked to supply on demand food and drinks have you asked any catering company in Dawlish if they ...
Things have changed when i first came to Dawlish there where Hotels and loads of visitors you couldnt get breakfast or lunch in a cafe they where busy serving holliday makers, but we still get a bite of the cherry. The deverstation and TV coverage has certainly raised our profile is it possible we could go back to the those days maybe just maybe.
Is it not as simple as public safety you realy are a miserable b***r Fred
If you accept that we have climate change and accept that sea levels are likely to rise up to 1metre and that could happen in the next 40 years but could be sooner then time is running out. Watching a recent program about flooding and sea defences there where four Dutch engineers experts in flood defence there opinion the British public refuse to talk about the cause climate change and that is ...
@Clive NR are doing a great job as far as it goes my personal view is they should be extending the repair from the HOLE all the way to Red Rock and to Boat Cove. But i am no engineer and the onsite chief engineer tells me the weakness was where the wall dropped to beach level this of course will now be one level as far as i am concerned a great improvement no more wet feet at high tide.
@Clive I realise what is going on as i have been there everyday watching the work being carried out my point is that needs to be done over the length of the wall otherwise it will breach in another place it has to be future proofed.
Its not rocket science concrete and steel higher and wider bigger the better dont matter what it looks like as long as it stands up to the sea.
It is impossible to protect all of our coast where do yopu stop if predictions on sea level rises are correct we need to build a wall from Teighnmouth to Marsh Barton and then back to Exmouth. So if you look at the Enviroment Agency flood predictions for estimated sea level rise Starcross, parts of Kenton and Marsh Barton are no longer there. So yes Lynne we need to act but they wont they will ...
Come on folks lets come back to earth a tidal lagoon where will the money come from, and what would be the cost millions maybe billions. In Swansea they raised £400,000 to get things to the planners you and i know you wouldnt raise £400 in Dawlish. And then is it cheaper to build a tidal barrier or a new line bypasing Dawlish the maintainance costs of a barrier would be huge while maintaining a ...
Why not just wait and see as they wont change whatever they have in mind.
