For info. these saltmarsh / mudflat creation projects are become more common for a number of reasons. Firstly is that they are cost effective as far as flood risk management is concerned, secondly we legally have to compensate for the loss of habitat such as European Habitats Directive sites (hooray for European law!) and thirdly Defra have set targets for the Environment Agency to create 100ha of saltmash per year. This has now lead to the EA setting up Regional habitat creation programmes which are being written this year. The first one in Anglian Region, which is under the greatest pressure, has already been written and Midlands Region, which includes the Humber, has just started writing one.
The Wallasea project is just one of the ongoing projects which has had some publicity, but there are many others. If you go to the following web site -
Managed Realignment Electronic Platform and look under ‘references’ and then go down to ‘case studies’ this highlights a number of ongoing projects with some details on some of the existing projects around the country. I’ve also included a link to the Alkborough scheme
http://intranet.ea.gov/organisation/...Alkborough.pdf which was completed recently and is the first of a number of schemes proposed on the Humber due to coastal squeeze.
Cheers, Chris