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Find out how clean the water is on beaches and in other bathing areas in England, and if there is a problem with pollution
Mixed sand and shingle beaches offer coastal protection. This project tests renourishment methods to protect beaches from erosion.
A guide from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on managing beach safety.
A project to develop a costed framework of field, laboratory or theoretical studies to fill knowledge gaps to support the management of barrier beaches.
This project increased understanding of how beaches made of mixed materials such as sand and gravel behave in order to create models to predict their future behaviour.
A scoping study providing evidence of the need to revise and expand the Beach Management Manual, originally published by CIRIA in 1996.
A knowledge review of beaches with mixed types of sediment and techniques to predict how they’ll respond to physical influences.
A project investigating beach behaviour to support beach management and the design of coastal defence structures on shingle beaches.
Sand has begun to be topped up on beaches between Saltfleet and Gibraltar Point, reducing the risk of flooding for Lincolnshire’s coastal communities.
A review of the current understanding of mixed beach processes, the method of predicting cliffing problems, and advice on best practice for beach recharge programmes.
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