shoreline management plan
- Created by: Charlie barker
- Created on: 26-05-13 12:24
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- SMP
- hard engineering
- sea wall
- concrete or rock barrier at the foot of cliffs or beaches to reflect waves
- groynes
- timber or rock structure built to trap sediment being moved by long shore drift
- rock armour
- piles of large boulders dumped at the foot of cliffs. force waves to break waves energy dissipates
- sea wall
- soft engineering
- beach nourishmet
- the addition of sand or shingle to a beach to make it higher
- dune regeneration
- marram grasses are planted on the dunes to sabalise them from waves and wind
- marsh creation
- low lying coastal areas or flooded and allowed to become salt marshes
- beach nourishmet
- hard engineering
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