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1
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Types of hard engineering

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Sea walls
Groins
Rip rap
Gabions

2
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Types of soft engineering

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Beach recharge
Re-grading
Vegetation planting

3
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Seedbanks Peninsula

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Separates Poole harbour from poole bay

The area is heavily managed

4
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The need for management

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High value commercial properties
Residential properties
Tourist attraction
Provides wave protection and shelter for poole harbour (place popular for water sports)
Narrow entrance to poole harbour, LSD could cause the entrance to become shallow and eventually blocked

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types of management being used

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Rock groynes - used to maintain a deep wide beach, wider teachers absorb more wave energy , reduce the movement of sediment along the coastline by LSD

Beach recharge - This is used to conserve the beach, sand dredged from offshore is sprayed onto the beach