Medmerry

• Why was it needed

  1. To protect farmland, caravan park +350 properties
  2. Increased risk of flooding
  3. Existing defences had been breached
  4. New sea wall was expensive
• They spent 28 million on it to build
• Constructed embankments (7km)
• Allowed low value land to flood
• flooded lands absorbed waves
• Social positives

  Stopped caravan park from flooding so homes didn't get destroyed
• Economic positives

  saving money because land and businesses didnt get flooded
• Environmental positives

  preventing loss of habitats