Coatal managment
- Created by: Kirsty_xx
- Created on: 03-04-17 10:27
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- Coastal Managment
- Minehead
- Causes
- Tourist resort- Butlins Holiday Camp and associated industry
- Higher land value means positive cost benefit analysis
- Built on former marsh land
- Floods regularly
- Tourist resort- Butlins Holiday Camp and associated industry
- management
- Extensive Hold the Line costs- £12.5 million
- Extensive recurved sea wall, 7 tonne rock armour, replenished beach
- Causes
- Portlock Weir
- Causes
- Farmland and small harbour
- Shingle ridge and beach previously protected the farmland
- Ridge was breached allowing water to flood the farmland behind
- Cost of repairing the shingle ridge was prohibitive compared to value of land that would be saved
- Management
- Decision made not to repair the ridge and allow the sea to flood farmland below creating a salt marsh
- Provides a natural barrier for farmland
- Creates a sustainable coastal areas
- management retreat
- Decision made not to repair the ridge and allow the sea to flood farmland below creating a salt marsh
- Causes
- Minehead
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