21 meters of land disappeared in 36 hours. So you see I couldn’t just sit back and see my family’s land disappear at this rate. I made it quite clear to the council what I was going to do, so they can’t complain that I didn’t warn them. We reached a peak of 128 lorries a day, and by the end of October 2005, after the environmental agency had changed the law to try and stop me from going ahead, I was forced to stop taking in waste material. But by then I had got the job 80% complete, and had 250,000 tonnes of material in, to act as a sacrificial soft sea defense. Yes, 250,000 tonnes. The bank was 1033 meters long, 25 meters base width, and varying from 4 to 8 meters above beach height. And… what shall we say… it was a fun summer to put it in.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Transcript Peter Boggis - a.k.a. King Cnut
21 meters of land disappeared in 36 hours. So you see I couldn’t just sit back and see my family’s land disappear at this rate. I made it quite clear to the council what I was going to do, so they can’t complain that I didn’t warn them. We reached a peak of 128 lorries a day, and by the end of October 2005, after the environmental agency had changed the law to try and stop me from going ahead, I was forced to stop taking in waste material. But by then I had got the job 80% complete, and had 250,000 tonnes of material in, to act as a sacrificial soft sea defense. Yes, 250,000 tonnes. The bank was 1033 meters long, 25 meters base width, and varying from 4 to 8 meters above beach height. And… what shall we say… it was a fun summer to put it in.
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