No, this is not the stretch with the swimming pool slipping into the sea and where a new seawall is under construction. This is the smaller seawall towards the rock pool. Undermining resulted in cracks. Soil Conservation Service placed Kyowa rock bags quickly supporting the seawall until a permanent solution has been designed. Solid and
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Bow thrusters are not a hang-over from Danny and Sandys’ 1970’s disco craze. They are huge props underneath ships that cause no-end of heartbreak for ports. Port or starboard doesn’t matter, but a champagne solution is required to change the Status Quo and rectify revetment and toe scouring and prevent it from happening again, again,
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If you came across a very winding creek with lots of snakes, what would you call it? Well, the old-timers got together on a slow day a few years back and agreed to call it Snake Creek. But when the creek flows fast after a heavy rain way upstream in the hill country, the damage
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The original Boxwall was a 500mm mobile high flood protection system. It has proven itself to be very successful and amazingly easy to use. Protecting buildings against flood water has been a long-term challenge, with all types of designs and concepts over the years. It’s even more difficult and expensive when the flood water is
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