Case Study

Eastbourne Beach Management Works 2010-2011 - Eastbourne, Sussex, United Kingdom

Eastbourne Beach Management Works 2010-2011 - Eastbourne, Sussex, United Kingdom

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BOSKALIS WESTMINSTER: SKILLS, RESOURCES, EXPERIENCE Boskalis Westminster provides clients with tailored, project-specific solutions for dredging related services, as illustrated by the following project summary. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Due to erosion by wind, waves and rising sea levels, the beach front at Eastbourne needed to be reinforced. The previous campaign to improve coastal defence was carried out in 1998 and in 2011 the shoreline no longer fulfilled the design criteria for safe coastal protection. Consequently Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC) developed a scheme comprising the recycling of existing material, particularly in me environmentally sensitive areas (SSSI – Beachy Head) and the importing of bulk quantities for the rest of the beach frontage. The sequence of the w

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