Hard Engineering: Isle of Wight
- Created by: Manon Burbidge
- Created on: 22-04-13 09:40
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- Hard Engineering: Isle of Wight
- Seaview
- 550m concreate sea wall fronted by a revetment. Nature reserve developed on landward side of sea wall.
- £4.7million, completed in 2004
- Freshwater
- Scheme devised to stabilise the clifftop, by anchoring the top of the cliff face chalk.
- Cost £750,000, and protects a main road only 11m from the cliff edge.
- Monk's Bay
- Constructed an offshore breakwater, six rock groynes and a revetment using 25.000 of granite.
- £1.4 million, completed 1992.
- Beach nourishment, reprofiling of slope and installing land drainage.
- Has helped prevent mass movement although groyne sedimentationhas caused issues.
- Castlehaven
- 500m rock revetment to protect Reeth Bay cliffs. Extension of drainage pipes and siphon drains.
- Cost £6.2 million, completed 2004.
- Has helped to reduce groundwater/surface water levels, which has reduced landslide occurences.
- Wheeler's Bay
- 15,000 tonnes of granite placed seawards of the existing defences to form a revetment and coastal slope regraded, drainage installed.
- Cost £1.6 million, completed 2000.
- Protected numerous properties from a renewed landslide risk.
- Seagrove Bay
- As part of hold the line policy, new concreate sea wall with 200m of rock revetment to dissipate wave energy.
- Rock groynes and land drainage to reduce mass movement
- £1 million completed in 2000
- Seaview
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