Coastal Cast Studies
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- Created on: 13-05-13 16:36
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- Coastal Case Studies
- Netherlands
- 40% country below sea level - global warming
- Zuider Zee (north)
- 1932 30km dam
- protect against high neap tides
- reclaimed land - polders. farming. Ijeselmere lake.
- Dutch Delta Plan
- 10 dams seal off channels
- East Schelt damn - sluice gates - environmental pressure
- marshes and mudflats preserved
- £300m maintence - taxes
- Coastal Dunes
- 42,000 hectares
- nourishment
- groynes hold sand on beach
- fences - trampling
- Holderness
- 2m a year
- 4km and 30 villages since roman times
- SOFT BOULDER CLAY
- £4.5m sea wall at Easington
- Hurricane Katrina
- August 2005
- 125mph wind
- 1500 died
- £300b damage
- 10m storm surge
- 80%city flooded 6m deep
- oil rigs damaged - 24.6l into lake. 9 closed.
- Petrol rose £1 UK
- 5m without power
- 16 wildlife centres damaged
- 25% no transport - evacuation
- $53.6b aid
- Bangladesh
- Cyclone GORKY
- 350km embankment. 7m high. $6b.
- Abbots Hall Farm
- Salcotte Estury, Essex
- rising 6mm a year
- 80 hectares
- 5 breeches
- timed with spring tides - carry seeds
- sloping topography = salt marshes
- £500,000 maintenance costs saved
- Netherlands
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