Category: Hazelwood Marshes
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Following recent high waves and strong winds on the East Anglian coast, it is perhaps appropriate to announce the 5-year anniversary of the blog Altered Coast and its previous incarnation Altered Marshes. The original inclusion of the word marshes is due to a visit in 2020 to Hazlewood marshes, an intertidal reserve next to the…
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This discussion is the second of a series, to debate whether big events, such as surges or high waves, or smaller gradual processes, cause the most erosion. This second conversation will look at erosion at Hazelwood Marshes in the Alde and Ore Estuary and Sudbourne Beach on the open coast. These areas have been selected…
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Recent information from the Alde and Ore Community Partnership has found the remaining walls at Hazelwood marshes could be at new risk of erosion. This is due large volumes of tidal water forming waves, which when driven by northerly winds risk weakening the rear inland side of the walls. It is thought that there is…
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Hazlewood marshes provides unique biodiversity in an environment moulded by its fortunes as an intertidal reserve. Sediment deposits are accreting at Hazelwood, noticeably in the former freshwater channels. The sediment is thought to consist of estuarine silt, which could concur with analysis that describes the Alde Ore estuary as flood-dominant, i.e that it has a…
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A selection of photos taken in February 2021 show the current landscape of Aldeburgh Marshes and Hazlewood marshes as well as the history of the scouring effects of the tidal surge in December 2013. The first photo shows the lasting affects of the scouring of the trees at the back of Hazlewood marshes, alongside the…
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In field studies on the Essex and Kent coasts following the North Sea 1953 storm surge, academics, Cooling and Marsland listed four possible causes for flood embankment failure. Three of these causes are particularly useful to consider regarding the failure of river walls at Hazelwood marshes and Havergate Island. These are, a) erosion of sea-facing…
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The Alde-Ore Estuary, of which Hazelwood marshes is an intertidal component, is long and thin with two main sections. The upper estuary, the Alde refers to the area between Snape and Halfway Reach, an area south of Slaughden next to the radio station below Lantern Marshes. The area of the estuary from Halfway Reach to…
