Llanelli coastal protection works stand up well
Coastal protection works around Llanelli Millennium Coastal Park carried out in recent years withstood this week’s battering from combination of high winds and high tides.
Park manager Rory Dickinson said a great deal of sea borne debris was thrown up on cycle path at two areas, one in Burry Port and the other at Bynea. Millennium Coastal park rangers were engaged in clearing the paths.
Large rocks were thrown on to the cycle path but the £160,000 storm surge defences that were put in place in recent years at both locations withstood the elements.
Because of the numbers of rocks and flotsam cast on shore and predominantly on the cycle and footpaths where it runs near the high tide mark, the coastguard took the precaution of closing the cycle path in part late on Wednesday at Burry Port.
It was opened Thursday morning with no further tidal or storm surge threats imminent.
There is little evidence of undercutting although huge volumes of sand were shifted along the spit on the eastern end of Cefn Sidan with the beach and strand line area having risen more than six feet over more than a mile in part.
Other parts of the beach had varying rises and falls in the level of sand and part of the famous “no name” wreck have several feet of spars of timber exposed that are usually buried.
A large oak was also washed ashore on Cefn Sidan which was being dismantled by rangers to prevent it being washed back out to sea and becoming a shipping hazard in Carmarthen Bay.
Pembrey Country Park rangers said there had been the expected massive undercutting of dunescape shearing some Cefn Sidan dunes to 20-foot vertical sides. But this had no long term impact because the dune slack area was several hundred yards deep in parts and dunes tended to repair themselves on the convex beach with wind blow sand restoring and expanding the dune line seaward.
Large rocks were thrown on to the cycle path but the £160,000 storm surge defences that were put in place in recent years at both locations withstood the elements.
Because of the numbers of rocks and flotsam cast on shore and predominantly on the cycle and footpaths where it runs near the high tide mark, the coastguard took the precaution of closing the cycle path in part late on Wednesday at Burry Port.
It was opened Thursday morning with no further tidal or storm surge threats imminent.
There is little evidence of undercutting although huge volumes of sand were shifted along the spit on the eastern end of Cefn Sidan with the beach and strand line area having risen more than six feet over more than a mile in part.
Other parts of the beach had varying rises and falls in the level of sand and part of the famous “no name” wreck have several feet of spars of timber exposed that are usually buried.
A large oak was also washed ashore on Cefn Sidan which was being dismantled by rangers to prevent it being washed back out to sea and becoming a shipping hazard in Carmarthen Bay.
Pembrey Country Park rangers said there had been the expected massive undercutting of dunescape shearing some Cefn Sidan dunes to 20-foot vertical sides. But this had no long term impact because the dune slack area was several hundred yards deep in parts and dunes tended to repair themselves on the convex beach with wind blow sand restoring and expanding the dune line seaward.
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