Diary of a Surf Sk8 ExplorerSurf, Sk8, Travel Exploration and TipsSevern Bore threatened- October 17, 2007 By midsummer the age old proposals, running for something like half a century, to build a Severn Barrage seemed once again dead. The central issue in development terms is always profitibility and viability. Build an effectual dam across the Severn estuary below the Severn Bridges and the first effect will be to create a vast silt trap allowing the whole upriver lake to accumulate mud sufficient to build a swamp before our very eyes within years. No longer would the barrage be capable of...http://www.stillstoked.co.uk/weblog/archives/2007/10/17/severn_bore_threatened |