Case-study: Holderness Coast Flashcards
Where are the sea walls?
The holiday resorts at Hornsea.
What coastal management strategy is at the holiday resorts in Hornsea?
The sea walls.
Where are the gabions?
Skipsea.
What coastal management strategy is at Skipsea?
The gabions.
Where are the groynes?
Hornsea and Mappleton (Groynes at Hornsea- been repaired and new ones built costing £5.2 million).
What coastal management strategy is at Hornsea and Mappleton?
The groynes and the beach nourishment.
Where is the rock armour?
Withernsea.
What coastal management strategy is at Withernsea?
The rock armour.
Where is the beach nourishment?
Hornsea and Mappleton.
Where is the ‘Do Nothing’ strategy being used?
The neck of Spurn Head.
What is at the neck of Spurn Head?
The ‘do nothing’ management strategy.
Where is Holderness located in the UK?
The Holderness coastline is an area of low-lying land in East Yorkshire.
What type of wave does the Holderness coastline receive?
Destructive waves from the North Sea during storms.
Why does the Holderness coastline need to be managed?
The soft boulder clay it is formed from less resistant rock.
Important infrastructure like the B1242 links many towns and businesses (e.g. Hornsea and Mappleton).
The gas terminal at Easington is on the cliff.
What percent of the UK’s gas does the gas terminal at Easington supply?
25%.
What supplies 25% of the UK’s gas?
The gas terminal at Easington.
How many metres of the coast of Mappleton was protected in 1991?
450 metres.
How many coastal management strategies were implemented in 1991?
2.
How much did the two coastal management strategies cost in 1991?
£2 million.
What was the Mappleton coast protected with in 1991?
Two rock groynes.
Rock armour (61,000 tonnes of granite boulders) at the base of the soft boulder clay cliff.
How many coastal management strategies protected Easington in 1999?
1.
What was the cost of the coastal management strategies implemented in 1999 on Easington?
£6.6 million.
How long was the stretch of coast protected by the coastal management strategy implemented in 1999 on Easington?
1 kilometre.
What coastal management strategy was implemented on Easington in 1999?
Easington was protected by rock armour.
What impact did the coastal management strategies implemented in 1991 and 1999 have?
The village of Mappleton and the B1242 are no longer at risk of erosion.
A loss of habitat for wildlife on Spurn Head.
Great Cowden has lost farmland and a caravan park.
The coastguard and lifeboat services from Spurn Head are under threat due to erosion.
Bays have formed between the protected areas; the protected areas have become headlands.
