Hold The Line- Mappleton Holderness CS COASTs , includes hard engineering example

Question 1

Population density

Answer 1

342

Question 2

What’s at risk?

Answer 2

-village of Mappleton: 50 homes, 300 residents
-businesses such as Vauxhall garage, post office and petrol station
-farmland on either side of Mappleton is not protected and is seen as not valuable
-the coast os eroding up to 10cm a year and is one of the fastest eroding coastline in Europe
-the road B1242 is at risk of erosion

Question 3

What management did they use?

Answer 3

Hold the line

Question 4

What strategies did they put in place to protect the coast?

Answer 4

• 2 rock groynes and rock armour
  -they were imported from Norway as they are resistant rock
  -cost 2million

Question 5

What are the strengths?

Answer 5

• coastline no longer affected by coastal erosion due to management scheme
• rock armour protects the cliff to southern end and has been successful in restricting waves from attacking the base of cliffs

Question 6

What are the weaknesses?

Answer 6

• the coast is expensive
• area near south is effected more by erosion, beaches there have low sediment and low tide exposing sand and boulders high have been eroded from cliffs

Question 7

What are the opportunities?

Answer 7

• as a result of the coastal scheme no properties have been lost to sea
  -the road B1242 remains safe from risk of erosion
• construction of rock groynes has created a large, higher sandy beach for Mappleton

Question 8

What are the threats?

Answer 8

• A woman lost her farm to sea as a result of erosion
• agricultural land at risk