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ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
2021
Beneficial use of dredged sediment
United Kingdom
Pagham Harbour
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50.758251
Shingle island
0.2 hectares
Compensation
This was an particularly distinctive/innovative project and a valuable new example of working with nature at the coast. A coarse sediment island was created close to the entrance to Pagham Harbour, West Sussex to provide habitat for nesting terns and protect the island at the centre of the inlet.
This project was done as part of the harbour mouth realignment works when a channel was excavated through the fronting Church Norton spit. This cut of the spit was undertaken in November 2021 to ease the erosive pressure being placed on Pagham beach and reduce the risk of coastal flooding to the east. Some of the material excavated from his breach in the spit was re-used to create Breach Island using an excavator and haulage plant.
A lot of planning and assessment work was undertaken in advance of this work. Some of the background to this is captured in the ABPmer 2018 story map (see link below) and in Scott et al., (2020). The site is also regularly monitored by CCO and others so valuable lessons are being learned about working with nature.
ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ