Exempel på groyne

• The actual flow of water acts as a groyne and helps to bank up the coastline.

• Sea-walls were undermined, groynes disintegrated and the natural protection of sand and shingle could not be maintained.

• There is no question about it; there are groynes and there will be groynes.

• We do not know what sort of groynes to put up, or what sort of beach defences.

• It needs the establishment of only one groyne to cause a different movement of shingle.

• Should there not be a policy of using metal or concrete groynes rather than mahogany groynes?

• I am not talking about a few new groynes, a few lorry loads of shingle and keeping the promenade in good repair.

• In the last two years we shall have spent nearly £2 million on cliff stabilisation and beach and groyne repairs.

• No one person can evaluate replacing hard engineering walls and groynes.

• The second option is to continue rebuilding hard engineering structures, such as groynes and sea walls.

• The old works which had been removed were groynes which had been sunk in concrete in the foreshore properly faced.

• The result was that during those periods the groynes disappeared and the concrete foundations of the ramparts against the sea were undermined and collapsed.

• In the past we have seen local authorities who, for economy reasons, spent £1,000 on erecting a groyne or sea wall.

• If we improve a piece of sea wall here, or put a new groyne in there, the effect is apparent further down the coast.

• If you remove any projection into the sea, whether a sluice, or a groyne, or a pier, it may have a tremendous effect on your coast protection scheme.