Raising the standard of flood protection in Hull: the Humber Hull Frontages flood defence scheme
Raising the standard of flood protection in Hull: the Humber Hull Frontages flood defence scheme
The Humber Hull Frontages flood defence scheme reduced the risk of flooding from the Humber estuary for 113,000 properties and it consists of more than seven kilometres of tidal flood defences along the estuary frontage. This paper describes the design of a variety of flood defences in challenging ground conditions, typically comprising deep fill deposits associated with the pre-existing flood defences and with large areas of reclaimed land overlying normally consolidated soft tidal flat deposits. The solutions provided to overcome multiple design and construction constraints due to the current and historical use of the project setting are presented in this paper.
L. Allievi; Alan Willoner
18th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE2024)
E - Environment, water and energy
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