Bardon Aggregates - Rock Armour River Defence Projects

Par Harbour:

Constructed from similar Cornish Granite in 1993, designed to protect the embankment and Western Edge of the Harbour Wall from tidal erosion in St Austell Bay.

  Par Harbour Sea Defence

Hartlepool Marina:

300,000 tonnes of Rock Armour stone were used to create the development in the North East of England. Stone in varying sizes of up to eight tonnes were used in the coastal protection project to protect the marina from the fierce wave power of the North Sea.

  Aerial view of Hartlepool Marina

Carboniferous limestone was used on the New Esplanade to form protection from the ravages of the North Sea.

  Carboniferous limestone used at Hartlepool

Bardon Aggregates Rock Armour now surrounds and protects an exclusive housing development, part of the Hartlepool Renaissance project.

  Rock Armour surrounds housing development

North Dock, Sunderland:

The construction and upgrading of North Dock in Sunderland used 35,000 tonnes of Rock Armour from Bardon Aggregates.

  The North Dock in Sunderland

St Bees Coastal Defence:

Railtrack specified Bardon Aggregates Rock Armour for their Coastal Defence Project at St Bees in Cumbria, after the West Coast was hit by savage storms resulting in a major slippage of land and the rail link was washed away.

  Coastal Defence at St Bees in Cumbria

Emergency supplies secured the rail link, whilst a further 65,000 tonnes were used in the permanent works.