How do we manage the risk of coastal flood and erosion along our coastline?

The Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership aims to reduce these risks by encouraging the provision of technically, environmentally and economically sound coastal defence measures around the partnerships coastline. 

The partnership manage a number of different defence structures along our coastline and undertake an annual maintenance program to manage the condition of the structures.

	Tidal flooding and coastal erosion can endanger lives, homes, places of work, leisure and farmland. It can also have a significant impact on areas of environmental importance.
	Climatic changes predicted over the next few decades may increase sea levels and the frequency and magnitude of storms, which would increase the risk of coastal flooding and erosion.

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