Worms Eating up Harbour
LONDON, April 12.
The teredo wood-gnawing worm which caused £5,000,000 damage at San Francisco harbour in 1920, has started to eat Shoreham harbour. The tropical teredo, Brighton’s Harbour Board was told, is brought bv ship—but can live only in warm water. It grows to 18 inches and eats a foot of timber in a few months. What, asked the board, was heating the harbour water? Was it warm water discharged from the electricity works ?
Mr H. Prvce-Jones.. the electrical engineer, said he could stop that. It would cost a lot of money, but it would be worth it. Was it also the warm water discharged from the gasworks? Mr D. Prince, managing director, said he thought there was not enough to make a difference. But Mr Pryce-Jones said it was enough to form a warm pocket in which the teredo could flourish. Whereupon the board decided to ask for expert opinion on the hapits of the bivalve mollus c with its od 1 capacity for scarce timber
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Grey River Argus, 13 April 1948, Page 4
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