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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #92 The Most Flooded Town In England
Description: In this episode we partnered with WSP to tell the story of Looe, a fishing port in Cornwall. The small town has the dubious accolade of ‘most flooded place in England’, and without intervention, the situation will get much worse.Â
With sea levels rising by as much as a metre over the next century, and the land sinking due to the retreat of the glaciers following the last glacial maximum, flood events will become simply ‘high tide’ in the future. A 1-in-1,000 year flooding event is also expected to be an annual occurrence by 2100.
To stop this...