Improving flood defences along the Humber Estuary Our geo-environmental team undertook a highly technical and complicated ground investigation on this ecologically sensitive site to determine the underlying ground conditions and provide reliable data on the groundwater regime and ground contamination. Paull Holme Strays is the site of the first, major, managed realignment scheme on the Humber estuary in North East England. The embankment bund created by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2003 is part of a flood risk management scheme which provides essential flood defence for farm dwellings and a gas works along with approximately 80ha of new intertidal habitat with associated wildfowl. In December 2013 the area overtopped and subsequent inspections by the EA noted settlement and cracking with

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