Priory Sea Level Rise
Lesson Two
Did you find the website?
• On your tables discuss what you
found, if you accessed the website,
about the effect of sea level rise on
infrastructure. Write down 2
examples.
This is what happened to the
infrastructure of Lewes in 2000.
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All rail connections lost.
Roads under water and town cut in half.
13 electricity sub stations stopped working.
The fire station was flooded.
Gas supplies failed.
Main Lewes sewage pumping station out of
action.
So what can
we do?
Quick exercise
Who do you think might GAIN
from planning for the future?
What jobs needs doing? What
skills might we need? What
inventions could help us?
What education programmes
might we need?
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Remember this?
Sea level rise at
Sheerness (Kent)
since 1834
What’s the difference
between the 1953
storm and predicted
sea level rise?
We can plan!
We know about high tides – this was
Newhaven on 17 Oct 2012
These are the next
high tides
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17 Oct 2012
23 Aug 2013
10 Sep 2014
28 Sep 2015
27 Oct 2016
5 Nov 2017
7.17 m
7.07
7.24
7.32
7.28
7.14
But we can’t predict very
heavy rainfall and tidal surges
PLUS sea level rise effects.
That’s the reason for this
programme and we thank
you for trying the last two
lessons.
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