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What Soft engineering has been done at Tilsbury?
a sea wall was breached and over 21 hectres of farmnland was flooded and a marsh was created and a new lower wall was built
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What soft engineering has been done at Mercy Island
Beach nourishment was carried out
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What soft engineering has been done at Oapland
In 1995 a sea wall was breached and 40 hectres of land was allowed to flood and a new lower wall was built
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What soft engineering has been done at greys crete
Marsh stabilisation was carried out by planting steak and brushwood along the water line to encourage sediment to build up.
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What hard engineering is there at bridlington?
a 4.7km long sea wall and groynes
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What hard engineering is there at hornsea and Withernsea?
Sea wall, groynes and rip rap
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what hard engineering is there at easington gas terminal
revetment
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what hard engineering is there at mappleton caravan park
gabions
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what hard engineering is there at east spurn head?
riprap and gryones
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what hard engineering is there at mappleton?
a 500m long sea wall and 2 rock groynes costing £2 million
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Advantages of a sea wall
-act as a tourist attraction, protect the coastline from erosion, protect the coastline from flooding
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disadvantages of sea walls
- expensive to build and maintain, can be obstructive not look good in the environment
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advantages of groynes
widen beaching to reduce erosion, trap sediment to reduce long shore drift
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disadvantages of gryones
look ugly, deprive beaches further down so increase erosion
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