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Case studies in C590

Full details on C590, Potential use of alternatives to aggregates in coastal & river engineering can be found on the CIRIA website. Case studies included are as follows:

Betteshanger Colliery, Kent – colliery spoil used as bulk fill in beaches for
sea defence/flood prevention
County Durham beaches – colliery spoil used (inadvertently) for beach
replenishment
Brighton Marina, Sussex – C&D waste recycling on site for sea defence
(seawall)
Minehead, Somerset – C&D waste for sea defence (seawall)
Norfolk coast – C&D waste (concrete blocks) cliff toe protection
(crib-work)
Hayling Island, Hampshire – C&D waste used in seawalls for saline
lagoons
Liverpool Bay – C&D waste and tin slag beach
Beesands, Devon – recovered rock (from site) reused in new revetment
Port Edgar, Lothian – floating tyre breakwater
River Witham, Lincoln – tyre bales in flood embankment restoration
scheme
Poole beaches, Dorset – maintenance dredgings used for beach
replenishment
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire – C&D waste used as bulk fill in railway
embankment fill in a flood alleviation scheme
Primrose Wharf, London – C&D waste from site used to fill gabion
baskets in habitat enhancement scheme
River Bure, Norfolk – tyres used in riverbank protection
Pecos River, USA – tyre bales used for bulk fill/riverbank stabilisation
Selby–Wistow–Cawood Barrier Bank, Yorkshire – colliery spoil used as
bulk fill in river flood defences
Colliford Dam, Cornwall – china clay waste used as embankment fill for
reservoir dam
Ellenabeich and Easdale, Argyll and Bute – slate spoil harbour walls
Horsey Island, Essex – saltmarsh creation
Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington, Suffolk – saltmarsh creation
Titchmarsh Marina, Walton on the Naze, Essex – saltmarsh creation
Shotley Marina, Suffolk – shoreline replenishment with dredged material

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