As a resident of Foulness Island separated from Wallasea Island by the River Roach the project is an outstanding one and from what we understand to be repeated in a few other selected areas locally
. I think anything that can be done to prevent the endless onslaught of building programs taking over salt marshes and flood plains has to be a good thing
. After the endless hype of the recent flood alerts and the predicted huge tides, it makes sense to have an escape valve and a natural one at that, no flooding accrued here but if it had, it would have been just a surge and the sea wall would have been up to it. Since the 53 floods the walls have been made more secure and the fleets around the inside of the Island's wall would have dealt with any water coming over. Foulness has been an MOD testing site for a very long time but it has always had vast areas for the wild life to live and migrate with just a bang or two but this does very little to disturb them otherwise they would not come back year after year and to increase the area of protected marshes and salt plains will always get my vote.