RESIDENTS of Queen Elizabeth Cottages at Furnace have been protected from coastal erosion thanks to a major engineering project.
The £95,000 scheme, paid for by Argyll and Bute Council and Scottish Water, saw the installation of 2,000 tonnes of rock ‘armour’ along a 140-metre stretch of coastline by the Anderson Group of Inverness.
Rock armour is rock or other material used to protect shorelines, stream beds, bridge abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against scour and water or ice erosion.