Asset Inspections are undertaken along both the open coast and harbour coastlines within the Coastal Partnership area.
When undertaking the inspections, we note the following items to assess the structure of the asset and whether maintenance is required:
We gather this data on site using a GPS enabled PDA which means we can plot the structures on GIS Mapping once we return to the office, the PDA also holds the database of the information which is gathered for each structure using a form on the PDA .
A full inspection is generally undertaken once a year
where we visually inspect the coastline using the
Environment Agency's 'Managing Flood Risk' document.
By undertaking these inspections we can assess if there are areas which are more vunerable due to the poorer condition of their defences or where maintenance is required to minimise the flood risk so that they can be raised in the Local Authority budget and the works be undertaken in planned maintenance. Those structures in the poorest condition and with the highest Maintenance Urgency have a report for proposed options for works written up so that works can be assess so that the most vunerbale areas are dealt with first.
