Walton-on-the-Naze Case Study of Coastal Management
A mindmap about coastal managment at Walton-on-the-Naze.
- Created by: Olivia Gibbs-Fairley
- Created on: 10-06-13 11:56
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- Walton-on-the-Naze
- Coastal town in Essex
- Population 12,000
- Average house prices at Sunny Point, £400,000
- Suffers coastal erosion
- Red Cray and London Clay
- LSD moves from south to north
- Slumping occurs
- Coastal Management
- Suffers coastal erosion
- Red Cray and London Clay
- LSD moves from south to north
- Slumping occurs
- In 1977, project was started to protect properties
- Average house prices at Sunny Point, £400,000
- Groynes and breakwaters to stop LSD
- Cliff regraded + drainage channels to produce a gentler slope and allow water to flow underground through tunnels and onto the beach
- The cliff - nettles to stop people climbing up it
- Sea wall to protect the London clay - easily eroded
- 1998 - £167,00 for 300 tonnes of Leicester granite around Tower breakwater
- This rip rap has slowed but not stooped erosion.
- Beach replenished in 1999 with sand and gravel
- Majority of this had gone by 2003
- Suffers coastal erosion
- Coastal town in Essex
- Beach replenished in 1999 with sand and gravel
- Majority of this had gone by 2003
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