Work starts on Portgower coast defence

CAITHNESS drivers making their way up and down the A9 will have noticed significant recent erosion of the coast between Helmsdale and Brora, just north of Portgower, where the trunk road, the railway and the sea come within touching distance of each other.

The stretch of coastline took a major battering in mid-December storms, which threw up large boulders on to houses and threatened to undermine both the road and the railway.

Work by Brora-based contractor Edward Mackay has just started to shore up a rock solid wall and breakwater to prevent further danger from the encroaching sea.

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