Sufficient deflection?
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Sufficient deflection?
Image: © Peter Turner Taken: 17 Apr 2011
On the far bank of the Bollin two angled sets of timber boards at water level seem to have been doing their job in protecting that bank from erosion. They will however have been overrun during the winter storms with high water levels. They seem to be acting like seashore groynes.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.298223
Longitude
-2.155402