WORK has started to replenish the shingle at Sidmouth beach as part of East Devon District Council's coastal defence beach recycling project.
The local authority secured up to £100,000 of Government funding, via the Environment Agency, for the scheme for which work is set to last around six weeks.
On Monday, January 5, a digger begun removing a surplus build up of shingle from the western end of the main beach ready for dumper trucks to redistribute the shingle at the eastern end.
The work will help to protect Sidmouth's sea wall from wave attacks and reduce future shingle recycling costs.
Meanwhile, the council is awaiting the results of the Beach Management Plan which was commissioned partly in response to public concern, including residents on Cliff Road, over rapid and ongoing cliff erosion at East Beach.
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