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Not Stack,but local TAP, plus the traffic light controlled new contra flow , in Gasoline Alley (Snargate St.).

Thanks I'll use the old road or come down the A2. It's a PITA doing 40 along there anyway.

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Stack is generally much further up the M20, between Jct 8 and 9. In the afternoons, you'll see similar numbers of lorries at Cheriton.

Yes I know it affects my journey down the M20, that's why I asked.

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Thanks I'll use the old road or come down the A2. It's a PITA doing 40 along there anyway.

If,, you can put up with the 40 mph limit,when you reach the Megger roundabout,turn left, go up South Military Rd hill,down the other side,onto York St, it will cut out Snaregate St roadworks, it will put you at the roundabout,bottom of the "old road".

You will not be in the traffic jams of the old road.

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Who forgot to put the main camera in the bag ?

 

So, these are the 2nd rate ones, from the iPad only, today.

 

Yellow rig appears to be sorting a pile hole out.

 

Their starting to backfill the excavation on the groyne today.

 

That's it.

 

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If,, you can put up with the 40 mph limit,when you reach the Megger roundabout,turn left, go up South Military Rd hill,down the other side,onto York St, it will cut out Snaregate St roadworks, it will put you at the roundabout,bottom of the "old road".

You will not be in the traffic jams of the old road.

Thanks I went down the A2 in the end, makes it a bit easier to get to White Cliffs if the trucks block the exit into Maison Due you have to go up the viaduct to the Duke of York anyway.

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Following on from the above question:

What is a groyne - as in "backfilling of groyne" mentioned above.

I thought a groyne projected out from the coastline to break-up beach erosion, but don't see any along this stretch of beach.

dh

It's usually a structure that runs from beach top to low tide level and beyond, normally at right angles to the beach, and reduces the effect of long-shore drift. There was one visible in some of the early photos, but it seems to have been buried- it was made of metal uprights (perhaps old rail) and rather rotten wooden planks between them.

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Following on from the above question:

What is a groyne - as in "backfilling of groyne" mentioned above.

I thought a groyne projected out from the coastline to break-up beach erosion, but don't see any along this stretch of beach.

dh

Mis use of the word groin,seems to have caused a"knee jerk" reaction,no bodily contact intended, but,

You can image, the pain.

 

So what do I call it ? Bulwarks ?

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Today,in the rain,lunchtime, some photo's onsite.

 

26999417942_c13c542cb0_k.jpgP1400032 - Copy by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26489960663_88eb2063fb_k.jpgP1400033 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27093510395_019d451b37_k.jpgP1400034 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26819559220_b2b1f93d78_k.jpgP1400051 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26488148714_27eafec6aa_k.jpgP1400049 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27093454545_039e56ea1b_k.jpgP1400050 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27093446745_c00dd60558_k.jpgP1400052 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

 

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Any idea what the excavation and backfilling was all about behind the sea wall at the tunnel mouths?

 

TIA

 

Apart from layering it centimeter by centimeter, not a clue.

 

This section in front of the tunnel mouths, in the video,was not shewn as pile driven, nor part of raft No.1.

 

 

 

90 % of today's action, was driving the two pile hole encasement's, for the end of raft No.1.

 

26488212054_a5fc042e9c_k.jpgP1400035 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27093505515_dfa92a99e7_k.jpgP1400036 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27060564316_69edd0eb01_k.jpgP1400045 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

 

27060569316_7fa936a786_k.jpgP1400043 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26999358682_b57a246ec5_k.jpgP1400046 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

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The Pile hole encasement's from above the tunnel mouth's.

 

27093381025_c4648972fe_k.jpgP1400069 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27060430926_6edddeced8_k.jpgP1400073 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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26489741613_69d6b19492_k.jpgP1400083 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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Soon,very soon, four of my photo hole's will be covered in new foilage,beyond the fence line, can't reach to cut.

 

The excavation area,adjacent to the tunnel mouths, is difficult to photograph,without abseiling.

 

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26489862673_8a99ac0fde_k.jpgP1400054 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27060519266_a210efba8e_k.jpgP1400055 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27025302571_d219164c78_k.jpgP1400070 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26999344532_d4b9e42f41_k.jpgP1400048 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27025440631_2160de3d69_k.jpgP1400042 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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Soon,very soon, four of my photo hole's will be covered in new foilage,beyond the fence line, can't reach to cut.

 

The excavation area,adjacent to the tunnel mouths, is difficult to photograph,without abseiling.

 

 

No problem.

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Today.

 

26504084414_5dcc3b74ae_k.jpgP1400094 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27041434021_b4e90f96bb_k.jpgP1400098 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27041427381_0045b51fcf_k.jpgP1400100 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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Work being carried out today.

 

Yellow rig was emptying bottom water.

 

26503890104_72a92b7cd6_k.jpgP1400148 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26505706193_a08880b720_k.jpgP1400154 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26835310260_1b1fb27c63_k.jpgP1400160 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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26835294240_8bc2beb07f_k.jpgP1400167 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

 

After doing this job, the rig then removed the bucket,  to replace it with an auger and trundled down the site to the tunnel mouths.

 

27014982222_7a7624b3fe_k.jpgP1400236 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26835197260_a0e2b2144e_k.jpgP1400203 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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So, after the yellow rig emptied the bottom water, these guys,with the crane started lowering the cages in.

 

27040960041_62b2c3fc93_k.jpgP1400252 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27014978822_0b957472d3_k.jpgP1400237 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26503743934_a3f5a10650_k.jpgP1400206 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26835203260_dcbd347052_k.jpgP1400201 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27041082761_3348361797_k.jpgP1400213 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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27041055811_e4ff0d79d8_k.jpgP1400219 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26505469543_369ebbe74f_k.jpgP1400230 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

27109509975_9cfa3ae40d_k.jpgP1400226 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

26835077910_3e7e438c74_k.jpgP1400251 by David Todd 2012, on Flickr

 

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