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Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
2016
Unmanaged realignment
United Kingdom
Stour Estuary (Essex)
1.05821
51.95337
Mudflat
7.1 Hectares
Other
Following a sluice failure, intertidal habitat has formed in approximately 7 ha of former grazing grass land at Cattawade, in the upper reach of the Stour Estuary, east coast of England. Whilst a breach initially developed in 2016 at the location where water historically drained from the site, a secondary beach has developed in 2017/18 close to this location. Following inundation, the terrestrial vegetation has died back, and mudflat is developing rapidly. The site is bound to the north by a road, to the south by a railway embankment and flanked on both sides by the Stour Estuary SSSI. As the site is privately owned, there is no guarantee it will remain as a uMR and could be reversed.
ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ