1. New-look Annual Reports
Incident Reports
One of the real benefits from the National Network is the opportunity to discuss ideas with other regions – prompt to refresh slightly the Annual Report came from the Southwest – evolution not revolution – twofold aim:
Get survey results out much quicker (typically now issued from July – October, but usually reporting on spring survey), but without needing to wait for all surveys to be complete
Incorporate information from autumn survey (typically not really used much at present other than possible a pre-storm survey)

2. Survey Unit – incremental report
Starts off with the date of the previous autumn survey

3. Simplest report is NAI site….
One survey per year, so total report can be issued to the coastal engineer immediately following the survey
Comments incorporated with the results of the Survey Unit (rather than the text isolated from the maps)
Includes information following feedback from engineers e.g. MLWS level, and quantities of change

4. Plus the usual profile maps (spring to spring and spring to baseline)

5. Profile cross-sectional area above MLWS
Plus graphs of the cross-sectional area above MLWS – same Y-axis scale for easy comparison… includes results from all surveys

6. HTL site (2 surveys per year)
Starts off with date of previous autumn survey

7. HTL site
After the Spring survey, can do the usual analysis (+ maps and graphs as for the NAI site)

8. HTL including autumn survey
Addition is the results of the autumn survey (covering the summer period) – although no new maps

9. Seasonal as well as annual changes

10. Scanner surveys
For beaches survey using a scanner, the beach can be divided into sections, rather than profiles

11. And the volumes of each section, and the total for the Survey Unit can be shown, including the time history

12. Most detail at a BMP site….

13. Will include profile and net volume changes, including time series of volumes.

14. And usual maps….
After each survey, the Survey Unit report will be completed (and sent to the coastal engineer, by arrangement), loaded to a new section on the website. In this way, the survey results are available within a few weeks of the survey.
In the autumn, the report for each Survey Unit will compiled, with the usual information (wave reports etc.) into a formal Annual Report for each coastal sub-cell, as at present…. Should be a quick job as all the main work has already been completed.
Aim to start rolling these out after the 2016 Spring surveys – may be a bit of an experiment at first, as usual we are open to suggestions from our coastal engineers.

15. Incident Reports
Second change in the survey reporting that we do sprang from request by EA coastal team at Blandford – really good idea, so discussions with coastal engineers, propose to roll out the reports in both the Southeast and Southwest Regions.
To be done in a proper “incident” e.g. severe flood warning, or unexpected coastal flooding etc.

16. Template will be pre-filled – done for managed beaches, principally i
Template will be pre-filled – done for managed beaches, principally i.e. the ones we survey first in a tempest and those we spend most money managing (we won’t be doing them for every post-storm survey).
Report is to serve 2 purposes – firstly to summarise quickly the survey results, and to provide information useful to the coastal engineer to manage the incident, and secondly, to serve as a long-term record of what happened.

17. Survey envelope + post-storm profile

18. General notes

19. Comparison with long-term volumes Crisis/design levels
Example is Milford-on-Sea
May not have crisis or design volumes
Comparison with long-term volumes
Crisis/design levels

20. Hydrodynamics….
Allows an at-a-glance with how it compares to winter 2013/14

21. Joint Return Periods
JRP will be derived from EA extreme tide levels (few years ago – known to be inaccurate in some places though) and 3-hourly DWR from deployment to end 2015.

22. Measured waves/tides and met
Idea is that this section can be completed quickly – copy/paste from the website.
Then add in anything extra which might be useful, photos.
Will be a joint effort between survey teams and coastal engineer.
Templates being prepared now, aim is to have all ready by January 206, so grateful for no storms till then, please