Pembroke Barrage ALL WORK MUST CEASE

 Showing the spoil blocking the navigable channel

The gate which has design faults and has failed so many times in the past is being replaced at our expense  It will never work
All engineers I have spoken to are agreed that the design is flawed and a waste of money, modifications ie locks on the gates to the footbridge are cosmetic. To navigate three weeks notice must be given,totally illegal.

Friday 210314 1700 Freshwater West Carpark

National Trust Guided Walk

FRESHWATER WEST

LISTED Grade 2

Bridge

Chamber

Culvert

Royal Society  Gold Medal 1800

CULVERT

Demolished unlawfuly by the National Trust

DESTRUCTION

Destroyed the scheme that had successfully managed the drainage of the Corse for two hundred years.

RESULT

SSSI is no longer a Calcareous Water Meadow an alkaline wildlife sanctuary providing grazing for cattle but is now a developing Reed Bed Alder Carr acidic species poor vegetation of little conservation value.

AGREEMENT

That the Culvert be rebuilt at the expense to the National Trust

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park who gave retrospective Planning Consent for Demolition must grant planning consent to rebuild.

Have chain saws will use PCC

 Well trained enthusiastic obeying orders cutting everything in sight by orders  of PCC, councillors really are beyond the pale , short back and sides dinosaurs. Anti life bigots one and all.

cleard thinned open to the wind an ecological disater. Carried out when birds are incubating all branches cut off to twenty feet the wind just whistles through

Pembroke Dock Defensible Barracks

Ancient Monument Grade 2 *Listed left to ruin by a series of chancer developers

now bought and being renovated and made waterproof

Original wood work  fittings still in place cast iron not taken for the war effort

Freshwater West archeology revealed

Limestone block with iron lead set tie

Temporatry structure how  many lies can we be told

Lime mortar red sand stone fo ndations for the masonary blocks

Wrought iron frame from 1790s

Now is the opportunity.

The storms have removed the sand to expose the Environment Agency and National Trust lies the tunnel is exposed the limestone blocks for the foundations are exposed, who sold the yellow granite blocks. We can see the stones blocking the arch at the end of the stone tunnel, further down the beach are the smaller stones from the limestone lime mortar tunnel and access shaft.

Before the sand the dressed tone blocks must be recovered and stored in preparation for rebuilding the illegal demolition.

Freshwater West Gupton

Dead cow pats six months after being voided,normally degraded by the weather but here in a sheltered place. insecticides or vermicides?

TRUST CATTLE TO RESTORE FENLAND

A partnership of farming and conservation wrecked by the National Trust

There is a complete denial of history by the National Trust, the pioneer drainage scheme by the Cawdor Estate won the Royal Agricultural Society Gold Medal in the 1790s

The National Trust demolished the part that made it self maintaining for over two hundred years, relying on retrospective permission given over ten years after the demolition.

.The SSSI and farmed land have now been inundated with freshwater for months. The attempts by the NT to remove pebbles are not a solution as the next tide replaces them. When removed the water level returns to its historic level with in an hour.

The only solution to the problem is to replace the demolished Listed Culvert to allow salt water in on spring tides.

The SSSI was set up to maintain the unique calcareous  water meadows which require occasional sea water otherwise they rapidly become alder carr and lose their winter populations of migratory birds and lose one of the few secure remaining sites for ground nesting birds.

Ideally the SSSI and the surrounding grazing should be farmed organicaly as the cow pats which grow the organisms to feed the hatchling chicks are contaminated by Systemic Vermicides and Insecticides which kill or sterilise the growing birds.

NRW do not understand the basic biology.

FWW is a storm beach its profile changes daily by up to 2meters  and returns on subsequent tides but  the diffusion of the water from the chamber over a hundred meters has altered the normal sequence all the sand has gone  this happens regularly but never so completely.Drainage management is essential.
THE DESIGNATION SSSI WAS BECAUSE IT WAS A VERY RARE CALCAREOUS WATERMEADOW
THE NT NOW CALLS IT SEDGE RICH FENLAND THERE ARE MANY OF THESE
ONE IS ALKALINE THE LATTER ACIDIC
TEN YEARS OF NEGLECT HAS OVERTURNED TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP
ONCE A HAVEN FOR MIGRATING WILDFOWL AND WADERS IS NOW BEING DESTROYED BY ARROGANT IGNORANCE

Freshwater West NT failure

 The water level at low water should rapidly return to normal BUT the stones are blocking the chamber

 This is the outlet blocked with only a trickle of water draining from the SSSI and farmland

We now have a permanent freshwater lake. Note the change in the beach all sand gone peat forest and shipwrecks exposed.