5362 x 3532 px | 45,4 x 29,9 cm | 17,9 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
13 luglio 2005
Ubicazione:
Chowder Ness, North Lincs / Humber Estuary, United Kingdom.
Altre informazioni:
A bulldozer pushes out the clay to form another layer of the south embankment - (Images can be searched for under the relavent dates to see how work progressed) - The creation of new intertidal habitat at Chowder Ness, near Barton upon Humber, on the south bank of the River Humber 2005/2006. A 'Managed Realignment Scheme' allowing the tide to flood twenty hectares of formerly agricultural land, as compensatory habitat for harbour development at Immingham, further down the estuary. Other realignment schemes have already been implemented and many others are due to take place in the years ahead as sea levels rise, in an effort to prevent flooding in this vast area of low lying land. At this particular site new south and east embankments were constructed before four hundred metres of the old river embankment was removed the following year - a period allowed for the establishment of turf on the embankments - to let the tide flow in. Clay dug from the site was used to build the embankments. The new embankment is 'keyed in' to the surface, and built up in compacted layers of approximately 250mm.
