PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
The very latest December views over the Dover Western Docks Revival site. Nearly 6 minutes of drone footage, incorporating some of the project graphic representations alongside the current progress. Well worth a look.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you for showing all this on the forum as this was my kind of work before I got to old,to carry on. But still great to see how it is done now , they have moved on alot with the power tools they use now to the ones we had to use ten years ago.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
After dredging at the Port of Felixstowe for the past week and a bit the 'BARENT ZANEN' hopper dredger returned to Dover last evening to continue its operations with the sand infill areas around the DWDR site.
Pictured this morning arriving with sand from the Thames site.
Crew at the bow drop a cable that will lift the floating pipeline to connect to the ships tanks that hold the sand which is pumped out under pressure along the landside pipeline to where it is required.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Letter in both our local papers this week.
Very regular bulldozing is now needed to replace sections of beach being swept away in front of Dover Sea Sports Centre. This acute erosion is directly caused by altered and now unpredictable tidal flows along the beach. It then has to be returned. (Who pays for this recycling?) The bulldozing is over some 100 metres or so along the beach. These permanent changes are being bought about by the in-harbour activities of the Western Dock development which creep ever further along the beach.
Without permanent beach rebuilding the Centre will be undermined and long sections of the beach gone forever. This situation was clearly going to happen. DHB’s marine expert surveyors did not explore this projection. Such erosion is expected collateral damage in a dock rebuilding environment like Dover which the marine surveyors could and should have assessed.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,989
Ah, so that explains what was going on in my pic in post #202. In my ignorance I had assumed that the DHB and its associates would know what they were doing.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
It would be an explanation, were Mr Ashenhurst prove to be a marine surveyor and working for DHB, whereas he seems to be gifted with precognition but not to be the latter.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,989
So a genuine question then: any ideas on the shingle-flattening?
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Genuine answer: none (not being a marine surveyor myself). However, were shingle to be being removed from the Western end of the beach (and deposited where?), then DHB would be obliged as the CHA to inform mariners of the tidal flow(s) involved.
To the extent that the piling may have deflected the "jetstream", this they have done - see NTM 54/17:
http://www.doverport.co.uk/operations/notices-to-mariners/ but I suggest that any such deflection is more likely to be away from the beach.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,226
Work on the Wellington cut progressing well.
I tried to get a picture of our captain but he ducked below deck when he saw the camera!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,892
Reginald Barrington wrote:
I tried to get a picture of our captain but he ducked below deck when he saw the camera!
It's not a proper boat unless it's got a stick and a rag on the top!
(BTW, have a couple of freebie tickets for London Boat Show next week. Send e-mail if anyone interested)"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Plenty of shingle continues to be moved at the western end of the harbour in front of the Sea Sports Centre and further along the beach. This view at low tide this morning with rippling wave patterns stretching all the way along the new pier.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,226
Just had a fantastic behind the scene tour of the DWDR and even got to walk along the Pier courtesy of Institute of Civil Engineers, DHB and VolkerStevin/Boskalis Westminster. The progress they have made to date is quite staggering.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,892
DWDR - Latest vijo (Dover pronunciation)
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
We've bought a drone and we're gonna use it.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
They are doing well but are they still within budget ?looks to me they are doing to be out of pocket on this one.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,226
From my visit last week they are in budget and ahead of target, the sands issue could leave them up to 25mil short which will impact the leisure aspect of the project.
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Guest 2210- Registered: 16 Aug 2017
- Posts: 53
What leisure aspect is that then? The only bit of the project that benefits Dover I'm guessing
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,226
Spot on Benji, Dover won't benefit at all from the extra jobs, increased freight, the visiting crews or the logistic infrastructure to service it!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,790
The only leisure aspect I can remember was a few benches on the new bit sticking out into the sea.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,226
The new shops and cafes on marina curve and the pedestrian area in front of cruise terminal one.
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