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The above pictures are, on the left, the start of the East Sand Barrier and on the right, its near completion. This fence is now completely covered and bounded on the outside by the Tender Mound, a rather disastrous experiment of putting dinghies on the beach. The dinghies collected as much sand as the hazel rods but not in such a disciplined manner! The West Sand Barrier has grown even bigger in the middle of the beach at its eastern end which is obviously where the sand drift really starts to build. The whole area is a observatory for sand in motion and seeing where it all ends up is a very interesting exercise although it is very annoying for boat owners who do not have their boats inside a barrier!
In fact, it has been decided that no boats of any sort will be put outside the sand barriers in future. The sand that is collected usually dumps over the matting ramps and makes launching impossible at times.
Projects to be undertaken Spring 2008- S is for Solos, in particular, to do
1. In North Park, widen centre aisle to West Matting to allow two way traffic. The black interlocking matting at present behind winches to be used. S DONE NEEDS MORE MATTING
2. SAND. Clear pathway behind winches, clear sand around winches and at top of main slipway.
Clear all dumps of sand from inside park and on wash down area.
Level park at west end. Hopefully by big machine during week DONE
3. Move Ribs to seawall DONE
4. Clear Fevas from North of pontoon to allow sand to clear.
Slot these Fevas into any spaces S DONE
5. Create Sleeper wall at East end of East Sand Barrier (hooray!) Major job S DONE
6. Clear matting ramps. West road roll to be picked up at exit, West road roll by sea needs
adjusting. NOT DONE East to be lifted and used as pathways inside park. DONE
New runway of wooden road roll to be manufactured - we hope! S.
OR ROAD ROLL TO BE ORDERED
7. SW corner of North park ( where Windsurfer rack used to be) Layout area with chains and
replace boats DONE. NEEDS MORE MATTING FOR PATHS
8. Relay interlocking matting through mirror park S DONE
9. Erect, at a later date when sand has blown away, a new fence behind Fevas by pontoon
white material (sounds awful) S. DONE IN PART, MORE STUFF NEEDED
10. Erect more small rod fences on top of sand barriers where they are still bare to hold
sand and help grass to grow S SOME DONE
11. Re-do rope fencing on outside of West Sand Barrier with loops around posts - rope falls
off nails - and extend fence at either end. DONE. EXCEPT FOR EAST END
12. Pull up remaining spikes of fence around Tender park and clear any ropes and rubbish S
DONE
13. Erect fence around west end of park to keep out intruders NEARLY DONE
14. Try planting more tamarisk cuttings inside West Barrier post and rope fence nearer
water which they might prefer. S
15. Concrete damaged areas west of winches and around park
16. Ongoing studies and trials of mechanical sand-moving equipment S
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