Why are Jim and Betty having problems getting house insurance?
1. The cliffs along the Holderness
coast are made of Boulder clay.
12. A large groyne has been built
using rock from Norway at
Mappleton.
2. Groynes are sea defences which
stop sand moving down the coast
helping a beach develop.
13. Boulder clay is more easily
eroded than harder rocks such as
chalk.
3. Jim and Betty retired and bought
their bungalow 10 years ago, just
South of Mappleton, outside the
village.
14. Sea defences at Mappleton have
caused erosion to be 6 times faster
in the area to the South of the
village than 10 years ago.
4. Technical reports show that 45
miles of sea walls need mending
along the Holderness coast.
15. Damage to property through
coastal erosion is classed as an act
of God.
5. Erosion speeds up on either side
of the area protected by defences.
16. Twenty nine small villages have
been lost to the sea in the past
1 000 years.
6. Jim and Betty’s garden shed fell
over the cliff edge last year.
17. Longshore drift goes southwards
along the Holderness coast.
7. The caravan site that Jim and
Betty used to visit before they lived
here has had to close down because
it is too dangerous.
18. The local authority spent £2
million on coastal defences rather
than re-routing the coastal road
away from Mappleton.
8. Jim fought for his country in the
war, now the North Sea is taking
part of the country away.
19. If the sea takes away material in
one place, it builds up new land in
another place.
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9. During the war Mappleton was a
cliff top look out point for enemy
ships.
20. The beaches near Jim and Betty
are very narrow.
10. Local residents complain about
the litter school parties leave when
they come to study the erosion
21. The groynes have stopped
erosion for the villagers of
Mappleton.
11. Some people believe we should
not interfere with nature.
22. A wide beach is the best defence
against coastal erosion.
23. Jim and Betty’s garden is 20 M
long.
24. Coastal defences are expensive
and councils can only pay for them
in areas where quite a few people
live.
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