Explain how the physical environment of the lower Tees and its estuary may have influenced land use up until 1994.The Rivers Tees's estuary has a large area of low-lying mud flats so wildlife and birds mainly used the area before 1994

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Sarah Crouch

Use and abuse of the environment 

1b.) Explain how the physical environment of the lower Tees and its estuary may have influenced land use up until 1994.

The Rivers Tees’s estuary has a large area of low-lying mud flats so wildlife and birds mainly used the area before 1994. Over time since 1906 inter-tidal land has been reclaimed, this adds to the overall area of the estuary. There are several sites of scientific interest in the estuary including seal sands, up to 200,000 migrant birds visit the sites of scientific interest in the autumn. With all the land that has been reclaimed the estuary has an area of around 8km squared in total, this provided a perfect area for building in the lower section.  

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c.) Comment on the extent to which the Tees Barrage has modified:

  1. The physical environment;

The Tees Barrage has changed the level of water upstream which may distress the fish living there. The speed of the river upstream may change so the erosion rates and the amount of sediment the river deposits may alter. Bellow the Barrage the water level has raised which has submerged the shallow areas and the inter-tidal sites of scientific interest. The water quality and salinity have been improved with the level of dissolved oxygen increasing rapidly upstream at the Tees Barrage ...

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