ding dong the reef is dead

[tree4]

No work at Boscombe till April 2009 (and another delayed) projected opening date of Sept 2009.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7726994.stm

Aint never going to happen.. bet you it will get damaged over winter/spring and no one will accept responsibility to repair what little has already been done.

[essex sucks]

haha lol its not going to be finshed this company needs to be shot

[tree4]

Need a bl**dy big long range gun as they have all bogged of back to NZ for their summer leaving us with some half filled sandbags slopping about under the sea.

[tree4]

Then wait for the shock news that work will not be allowed to continue as some endangered (rare to UK south coast) marine life has now attached itself to the few sandbags already laid and an extensive public consultation must now take place before we disturb their new habitat.
Hope someone is filming all of these council meetings for the plot line of the return of "Yes Minister"

[phillwilson]

cold water temps and dark nights........in England.........who'da thunk it!!!

complete morons....surely this sorta stuff should have been contractually tied up.

think i might come up with some loony project...worlds largest skipping rope between dover and spain......huge fans to be placed on the coast for wind surfers...whatever, pitch it to some council along with some research from "my mate Dave" ........its clear this fleshin' would go for it.

what a complete misuse of hard earnt money.

Shame on the lot of them

[Hang11]

hardly a surprise,

Maybe they will spend their time in nz fixing the one they stuffed up here.

[hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf]

ooh i thought this was goingto be an environmental post but instead its just a bunch of whiney surfers. i dont get it, who pays for the reef and how do they get paid for it? do you have to pay to use it?

[tree4]

@hawaii.
Wouldn't have thought the post came a cross as 'whiney' just frustrated.

This should have been delivered in 2006. It wont cost anything to use it. ASR were (are being . .not sure if they have been given all the money yet) paid by the local council who got the money from selling shore front land to developers to build flats/apartments.

I'm planning to relocate to Saunton sands in the next 18 months anyway so I'll probably never use it and so I should just shut up about it.

[hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf]

i was kidding. i just think the idea of an artificial reef for waves is funny. in hawaii when you say artificial reef that means some old sunken boat serving as a habitat for fishes.

[seaford]

This reef was always a joke. Boscombe gets 1-2 foot groundswell max and it hasn't had a decent wave bigger than shoulder height ever. If the so called "Superbank" alongside the pier can't create anything more exiting than the wake off the Barflour then I don't see how a £2m pile of sandbags is gonna do any better. People don't surf here because the surf is any good, they surf here because they are desperate and it costs £50 in petrol to get to anywhere with real waves. Or they just haven't a clue and think it's clever to spend £700 plus on a board and suit to flail around looking hapless.

Well done to the council though. I wonder how much of the £2m has gone down the drain literally on the failed reef project. That comes on the back of a beach regeneration programme that consisted of dumping tonnes of sand mixed with sharp flints onto the beach - destroying the best sponger's wave in the area down at Southbourne, probably for years, as well as making that particular beach pretty much unusable as a family beach since it is now so steeply shelving and with such an undertow that it had to be red-flagged by the lifeguards for most of the summer. A monstrosity of a development of pokey flats right on the beachfront that rivals the IMAX down in Bournemouth for tastelessnes and that will have spoilt what could have been a decent bit of beachfront for ever. Most of the car parking gone - how did they think surfers were going to get there with nowhere to park - use the Sainsbury's Park and Ride bus?!

Not sure why they think this catalogue of ***s-ups will somehow turn Boscombe into the seaside equivalent of Richmond-Upon-Thames and that all the current residents , easy to spot - they are the ones with no front teeth and a staffy-cross on a lead, will move out to a squatter camp in King's Park.

And to top it off they've turned off the showers on the beach front, no doubt to save some money to ensure they've enough in the trough for annual bonuses and pay rises this year.

Don't know why we don't just herd the council dropkicks into a bunch of shopping trolleys and push the lot over the end of the pier to build our own reef.

Next weekend Boscombe hosts the South Coast surf championships. That'll be one to rival the Pipe Masters.

[TReMoR]

look at where the reefs on our side are getting to
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_1059 ... orced=true

[pkbum]

artificial boobs are nice.

[hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf]

artificial boobs are nice.

not for me

[SDCali]

look at where the reefs on our side are getting to http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10590561

Yet they are expanding an artificial reef off the coast of OC, but it's not a "surf enhancing" reef, its more like hawaii's version, to enhance the ecosystem... grow more kelp.