Repairs costing around £2 million to flood defences that help reduce flood risk to communities on the South Humber bank will soon be completed.
The Environment Agency is scheduled to finish the initial repairs to the flood defences, which were damaged by December’s tidal surge, by the beginning of April.
It will have taken three months to complete the work which has seen more than 13,000 tonnes of clay to bolster the flood banks. In total, more than 19 km of defences will have been repaired, stretching from Whitton to East Halton Skitter, together with sites further south near to Humberston and North Cotes.
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Mark Adams, Senior Coastal Advisor at the Environment Agency, said:
“We have been extremely busy since early December but are now finally coming to the end of our initial repairs. This was a mammoth task costing around £2-million and involving more than 30 site staff from our own and framework contractors. “
The tidal surge on 5 December was the highest ever recorded - caused by extreme weather conditions, when low pressure and strong winds combined with high spring tides. According to the Agency, spring tides, which happen every two weeks of the year, do not normally cause flooding because the defences are designed to withstand them.
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