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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
A guide from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on managing beach safety.
Mixed sand and shingle beaches offer coastal protection. This project tests renourishment methods to protect beaches from erosion.
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 project to develop a costed framework of field, laboratory or theoretical studies to fill knowledge gaps to support the management of barrier beaches.
Annual works by the Environment Agency to reduce the risk of flooding for Lincolnshire’s coastal communities has now started (8 May).
A project investigating beach behaviour to support beach management and the design of coastal defence structures on shingle beaches.
A knowledge review of beaches with mixed types of sediment and techniques to predict how they’ll respond to physical influences.
A scoping study providing evidence of the need to revise and expand the Beach Management Manual, originally published by CIRIA in 1996.
Seeking views on proposals to designate 8 beaches in Cornwall as bathing waters.
Offenders will be put to work to pay back the communities they have harmed as part of a week-long nationwide clean-up of Britain’s coastline.
The majority of designated bathing waters across Devon and Cornwall have a good or excellent rating for water quality.
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.
How beaches near Sellafield are monitored, the monitoring results and how risks to the public are minimised.
Beach management: lessons learnt from past scheme performance of different modelling approaches
The development of models, databases and guidance to predict sediment movement and help manage shorelines more effectively.
This literature review investigates whether faecal bacteria can grow in association with seaweed and whether this increases their survival time in the environment.
This project identified current knowledge about managing shore platforms that include stable layers, such as mud or clay, as well as further research required.
This project aims to improve our understanding of toe scour at coastal defence structures and improve our ability to predict and lessen beach lowering.
This report (HPA-CRCE-018) describes an assessment of the health risks to people using Cumbrian coast beaches from contaminated objects.
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