Lincolnshire County Council: £1.8M Sea Defense Scheme at The Wash Completed

An area of The Wash shoreline near Wrangle is now better-protected thanks to the completion of a flood defense project, Lincolnshire County Council said in its latest release. 

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The project will safeguard over 3,400 hectares of prime grade one farmland, and 460 domestic and industrial properties, according to the council.

The partnership has raised and re-profiled sea defenses, raising them to over 7 meters high, improving the protection for both properties and farmland, and creating additional grassland and semi-wetland wildlife habitats.

Cllr Colin Davie, executive councilor for environment and economy at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “I am delighted to see the successful completion of this latest major scheme. Lincolnshire’s flood risk and water partnership was put together six years ago, to promote exactly this kind of co-ordinated working, where each organisation contributes its own specialism to achieve more for our communities and businesses than would have happened were we all working alone.”

“In this case, using £1.3m of DEFRA grant funding we have secured an additional half a million pounds of external investment that would otherwise have gone somewhere else. I look forward to our partnership continuing to attract more external funding to help secure a stronger economic future for our county.”

If there was a major coastal flood, the effect on this 5km stretch of the Wash shoreline had been viewed as potentially catastrophic, with the lowest sea banks along the Wash frontage, and only a single line of defense.

The Project Board also included Lincolnshire County Council, landowners, Environment Agency and Natural England.