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An attempt was made to drain the harbour for farming in c. 1873 with an embankment constructed across the edge of the lagoon to hold back the sea; this failed during a storm in December 1910 and was not reconstructed.<ref name="Prater2010">{{cite book|author=A.J Prater|title=Estuary Birds of Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yxsxe_ZEpY4C&pg=PA192-IA3|date=30 November 2010|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4081-3847-2|page=192}}</ref><ref name="Sedimentary response of Pagham Harbour, southern England to barrier breaching in AD 1910">{{cite journal|last1=Cundy|first1=A.B.|last2=Long|first2=A.J.|last3=Hill|first3=C.T.|last4=Spencer|first4=C.|last5=Croudace|first5=I.W.|title=Sedimentary response of Pagham Harbour, southern England to barrier breaching in AD 1910|journal=Geomorphology|date=August 2002|volume=46|issue=3-4|pages=163–176|doi=10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00060-0|url=http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/8948/}}</ref><ref name="Changes of Pagham Harbour" />
At present the entrance to the sea is 50 metres wide.<ref name="Geographical Conservation Review">{{cite web|last1=May|first1=V.J.|title=Pagham Harbour|url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount1851.pdf|website=Geographical Conservation Review|publisher=[[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|DEFRA]]|accessdate=3 November 2016}}</ref>
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