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Observations of coastal erosion and sea on East Anglian Coast

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Altered Coast is a documentation through images and words of coastal erosion on the coast of East Anglia. Locations, sediment, weather systems, communities, tides and surges as actors in a constantly changing, increasingly fragile evolution. As restless and powerful as the sea itself.

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  • Lowestoft High Tides 2015 – 2022

    On 29th January 2022 a weather system, named by the Danish Meteorological Institute as Storm Malik, brought significant winds to the UK. The storm passed to the North-East of the UK and generated a large storm surge on 30th January 2022, which travelled down the east coast and had considerable impact at several locations on…

  • High Tides

    At the time of writing on the evening of February 9th 2022 there are flood alerts issued again for the tidal River Yare, from Thorpe St Andrew to Breydon Water and the tidal River Waveney from Ellingham to Breydon Water. This area is of interest because the alert mentions a heightened risk at the Haddiscoe…

  • Elements of Erosion

    This discussion will consider three particular elements to the on-going dramatic erosion at Thorpeness. The first element is the flood defences installed in a series of attempts to hold back the sea. A Gabion defence, a stone filled mesh box was installed in 1976, following serious erosion with beach material added to cover the defence.…