The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 62
Staging to be Maintained
Staging to be Maintained.
The maintenance of this staging may cause some trouble and expense, but to what extent, it is not possible to determine. The piles are not, as in the West breakwater, buried up in stone, but stand in the water. They are, therefore, pretty certain to be eaten by sea worms, and it would be difficult to say how long they will remain safe under this damage. The piles are also liable to be knocked down by drift trees, brought down by floods, beating against them with the waves. It was supposed to be from this cause that a number of bays of the staging fell down during a gale in August, 1890.