Minehead C/S

Question 1

Size of Recurved Sea Wall

Answer 1

0.6m

Question 2

Value of Butlins

Answer 2

£300 million

Question 3

How many rock groyned

Answer 3

5 - 4 smaller and 1 terminal groyne

Question 4

Strategy at Minehead

Answer 4

Hold the Line

Question 5

Strategy at the Warren

Answer 5

Managed Retreat

Question 6

Strategy at Porlock bay

Answer 6

Managed Retreat

Question 7

Strategy at Selworthy Cliffs

Answer 7

Do nothing

Question 8

Hard Engineering at Minehead

Answer 8

Recurved sea wall, 5 groynes, stepped revetments, riprap

Question 9

Soft Engineering at Minehead

Answer 9

Beach replenishment - built up by over 2m

Question 10

What have they allowed to happen at Porlock bay

Answer 10

Breaching and overtopping of the pebble beach - causing flooding and forming a salt marsh behind the beach - creates a habitat for birds and animals/marine plants, stops further erosion

Question 11

What is happening at the Warren

Answer 11

increased erosion due to lack of sediment downdrift of groynes in Minehead, caused collapse of small cliff, coastal retreat and flooding of land behind