Coastal Management
- Created by: Revisiola
- Created on: 12-05-16 11:06
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- Coastal Management
- Minehead- hard engineering
- Major tourist attraction - Butlins
- Brings £90 million per year
- The land used to be marsh land- the sea naturally wants to flood the area
- In 1990 Mineheads beach was washed away
- leading to a flood which cost £2 million
- Approach
- 1.8 km sea wall
- deflect waves back into the sea
- Concrete step revetments
- 320,000 tonnes of sediment
- 12.5 million
- 4 rock groynes
- rock armour
- each weighing up to 7 tonnes
- 1.8 km sea wall
- Major tourist attraction - Butlins
- Porlock bay- soft engineering
- The shingle ridge which protects the marshland has been breached by high water levels and storms
- They have attempted to repair the shingle by placing break waters
- Groynes were also used after the beach move 20-30 m inland in 1996
- 'DO NOTHING' approach
- Some farmland will be lost
- damaging floods will no longer happen
- marsh land will absorb the impact of future floods
- Managed retreat
- The shingle ridge which protects the marshland has been breached by high water levels and storms
- Minehead- hard engineering
- Background info.
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