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Monitoring the Coast In order to carry out any coastal protection works or attempt to change the natural state of the coast it is necesary to have a thorough understanding of the areas ongoing coastal processes. This can be done through the use of physical or theoretical modelling techniques and desk top studies, but the best results come from sites where regular monitoring surveys have first been carried out. Site-specific data of this
kind provides real first hand evidence, allowing direct interpretation or the fine-tuning of model
studies.With this knowledge schemes can be tailored to work within the natural system, using it
to advantage where beach control is required or by reducing unwanted impacts further afield. In
this way it should then be possible to get the best financial, social and engineering benefit from
the new defences.
This steady state is however further controlled by natural and man made obstructions and changes in the orientation of the coastline.
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