IIRC, when we were discussing the AOPS and seasonality, one of the problems that kept being raised was scouring. There were parts of the southern channels of the NWP that were so shallow, and those parts shifted with the tides and the seasons, that bergy bits moving through the channels regularly scoured the bottoms. This was seen as a threat to cables and minefields. It is the reason I suggested that any enduring fields would have to be resown seasonally. It is also the reason I proposed the stone frigate notion of launching torpedoes from dry land through tubes. I figured that the tubes could be engineered to be berg/scour proof.
As to the sensors. The old sensors were permanently installed cables with microphones. The new sensors can be microphones on UUVs attached to the forts by fibres. They can manoeuvre around obstructions, or get out of the channel, or just be replaced by another one if it gets dammaged.
If those chunks of ice are in the channel and scouring the bottoms I doubt it any CO is going to risk his command in those waters.
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It occurs to me that a stone frigate is not restricted to passive sensors. Ships are careful with active sensors because they give away their position. The position of a stone frigate is known. There is nothing to give away. It can ping freely.
In fact, it seems to me that its pinging, and reflections, could by picked up by third party sensors and used to image a field.