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Erosion on The Isle of Wight

 

The Isle of Wight has had a battle with losing land every year as far back as Victorian times and possibly before. 


The amount of land the Island loses varies between 1 - 3m a year in some places, thankfully not all areas of the Islands coast is affected by this problem.

Erosion is a gradual problem and is quite easily slowed down or stopped, unlike Landslips which are more responsible for land lost. 

 

  
Shoring up of the sides of the coast are very common in Lake, Sandown, and Shanklin.  Sea resistant wood is used with long bolts fixed deep into the adjacent sound rock, wire netting is also used where the edge is very crumbly.

 

The picture above is an extract from the one previous.  Notice the 'No vehicular access' sign which used to be for a cliff top footpath is now on the extreme edge of the cliff. 

The footpath itself has become overgrown since it's closure some time ago.
Typical crumbling coastal edge at Brook on the West of The Island.

 

Other areas have relative normal problems with sea erosion which can normally be dealt with by sea defences constructed out of various materials  and this is common on many other locations within the Mainland.

 

 

 

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