Our base in East Anglia has enabled us to be at the forefront of the efforts to strengthen both inland waterway flood and coastal erosion protection and defences.
Lancaster Earthmoving Ltd has worked extensively in the East Anglian fenland, an area covering some 1300 square miles and in continual danger of flooding due to a combination of peat shrinkage, sea level rise and the isostatic rebound of East Anglia.

The Ouse washes, middle and south banks, originally designed and built by Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden in 1650, have been extensively strengthened and raised to provide flood protection to the Bedford Level until 2050.
Our works involved the excavation of the old silt or clay banks, placement of new imported inner clay core and outer clay liner and the resoiling and trimming of some 23km of  the south and middle level barrier banks.

Provision of extensive areas of rock armour to protect many areas of the soft, glacial till, hinterland on the East Anglian coast from Essex to North Norfolk..
Works we have carried out on the River Colne at Brightlingsea, Essex with Breheny Contractors are one such example.

The Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex coasts have benefited from rock armour placement, both to attempt protection to cliffs and beaches from erosion and as protection against inundation of the sea.
We have carried out contracts at Sea Palling, Walton-on-the-Naze, Felixstowe and Overstrand, working between tides to place rock armour of up to 23 tonnes in weight.

Severe cliff erosion, aided by seepage of ground water at Overstrand, North Norfolk, involved Lancaster Earthmoving Ltd in the excavation and replacement of 40,000 m3 of wet, slipped glacial till from the cliff face and its reinforcement with 26,000 tonnes of imported granite armour rock from Norway.

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