Coast villages to be sacrificed to the sea (News from the UK) [View All]

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Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Coast villages to be sacrificed to the sea
By Melissa Kite and Richard Gray
Last Updated: 4:11am GMT 11/11/2007

Whole villages and swathes of agricultural land will be surrendered to the sea because the Government is unwilling to spend billions of pounds on flood defences.

Ministers have admitted privately that they are preparing to evacuate settlements on the east coast within the next 30 years because it is not "cost effective" to save them. Thousands of acres of farmland will be allowed to flood, potentially jeopardising food production in areas such as East Anglia.

Parts of the Norfolk and Suffolk coastline will not be given a penny for defences because they have been deemed impossible to save, according to leaked details of the Government's coastal flooding and erosion risk assessment. The study, which is being conducted by the Environment Agency and will report in June next year, uses a points system to decide which parts of coastline will receive flood defences and which will be abandoned.






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The story of this storm surge received little or no coverage here in the United States. But we may have to face this in the future on lands exposed to the oceans.

Respectfully,

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