Hard & Soft Engineering Coastal Management Case Studies

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Hard & Soft Engineering Coastal Management Case Studies

Hard Engineering - Coastal Management - Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight has 65 miles of spectacular coastline, 28 miles of which are designated Heritage Coast. This varied coastline is one of the Island’s main assets.

 

The Isle of Wight has four coastal defence options:

  1. Hold the Line – retain existing coastline – maintain current deference’s, upgrade or install new ones
  2. Do nothing but monitor – it may not be technically, environmentally or economically possible to do coastal defence work
  3. Retreat the line – this is used to manage the rate and process by which the coast retreats
  4. Advance the line – build new defences seaward, in front of the land, to protect the land behind
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Hard Engineering - Singapore

Breakwaters

  • 3 Break waters were installed at Siloso Beach, Singapore
  • They cost $1 million dollars each, 80 metres long.
  • Effective as they reduce the amount of erosion from waves as the waves break before - the energy dissipates. Siloso beach is a high tourist attraction and the breakwaters have been used and integrated in tourist attractions such as 'MegaZip'.

 

        


Soft Engineering - Coastal Management

The Sefton Coast, NW England

 

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