SEA DAMAGE
Sir, —When the Cave Rock joined the mainland it became a headland; and as two headlands become tied by a beach, so a beach developed between it and Clifton, and the bar moved northwards. Previously, the swirl round the Cave Rock and its outlying rocks maintained deep water beside them, and so kept the channel there. Further out was the bar—a shallow area, and a kind of reservoir of moving sand for the main beach. The bar is now far north of its old position. The remedy is to allow the sea round Cave Rock again and return the channel to the pier by some wall from the spit, like the old low tide one opposite the pier, and so reform the old tidal lagoon in which the pier stood. The bar would then be in its old position, and sand would accumulate on the beach south of it.—-Yours, etc., G. March 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 3
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