Towyn, Wales - Coastal Environments, Flooding
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- Towyn, Wales - Coastal Environments - Flooding
- Information
- February 1990
- North Wales
- Causes
- Human
- Inadequate maintenance of 140 year old sea wall, weakened further 14 days before this event
- Failure of 3 km embankment
- Development of houses required culverts to drain surface run-off underground into the Irish Sea
- Physical
- Deep low pressure system created gale force winds (gusts 70 mph) in the Irish Sea
- Storm surge of 10 metre high waves
- Low lying, is level or only a few metres above sea level
- Human
- Consequences
- Physical
- Flooding of 10 km2 of land, worse affected submerged under 2 m
- Farmland contaminated with salt water
- Socio-Economic
- Over 5000 affected, cost of restoring homes & businesses £30 million
- 3000 put in temporary accommodation
- 6000 caravans damanged
- 40%/15% had no contents/buildings insurance
- An estimated £10 million needed to build new coastal defences
- Physical
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