Well the sun is truely shining upon us. The weather is so good in fact that the contractors have been complaining that it's a bit dusty!
Work on the project is firing on all cylinders in fact if you tot up the machinery on site it would probably shock you how many cylinders. The main job is focusing on getting the clay to the new sea wall and this is progressing at a steady pace. The first layer of geogrid has been laid. This is the material which helps 'firm' the sea wall up and layers of clay about 300mm thick have started to be placed on top. As you can see from the photo it's not like laying top soil in the garden and once the dumpers have got it to the sea wall location the bulldozer and roller get to work making sure it compacts down to the necessary level.
The height of the new sea wall will eventually be about 5.6m above ordnance datum (AOD-essentially zero for ground levels). At it's current level it is 2.7m AOD by the end of this years work it should be up to about 4.6m AOD so there is still quite a lot of clay to shift.
Although there appears to be a lot of disturbance on site the birds seemed to have adjusted better than our human visitors. Waders are still using the fresh marsh for roosting and feeding and only a few days ago there were 150 dunlin, 17 curlew sandpipers and one little stint.