Changing tides: New methods sought for rising sea levels

Lincs beach work photo credit Van Oord

A coastal English county is battling a feared 1m sea level rise by 2100 with annual beach replenishment works – but this will still not be enough, it says.

For 30 years, the Environment Agency has been replenishing the beaches in this way ’to provide a wider defence which reduces the impact of wave action and tides, in combination with the existing hard and soft flood defences’. But officials now think this will no longer be enough.

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