Holderness Coastline
- Created by: ed bee
- Created on: 07-05-17 11:29
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- Holderness Coastline - Areas
- Skipsea
- limited protection due to lack of funding
- many cant get insurance
- Skipsea to Tunstall road closed due to damage - lack of access.
- Hornsea
- protected by sea walls and groynes
- incredibly expensive
- long life span and reduce mass movement
- reduce the aesthetics of the area
- possible beach starvation at Spurn Head
- protected by sea walls and groynes
- Mappleton
- groynes and revetments built to protect coastal road
- cost £2 million
- cliff regrading (lower the angle of the cliff)
- less prone to slumping
- beach nourishment used here
- groynes and revetments built to protect coastal road
- Withernsea
- sea wall near the pier - reduces aesthetic value of the honey pot site
- caravan park uses groynes for protection. groynes dont go all the way across the caravan park.
- areas without groynes are eroded even faster due to beach starvation
- Easington
- UKs largest gas terminal, provides 25% of the UKs gas
- estimated to be worth £30 million
- 1km revetment built of 130,000 tonnes of rock.
- UKs largest gas terminal, provides 25% of the UKs gas
- cost 2 million
- 1km revetment built of 130,000 tonnes of rock.
- Spurn Head
- 6km long spit
- valued at £18 million
- do nothing approach
- few groynes, but left to rot
- 6km long spit
- Skipsea
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