Coastal safety: storm surge safety – groyne development on Prerow’s coast | EUROtoday

Work is presently underway on the Baltic Sea coast in entrance of Prerow to construct 9 new rows of groynes for storm surge safety. The shopper for the roughly one kilometer lengthy development part is the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, represented by the State Office for Agriculture and the Environment Central Mecklenburg (StALU MM). Six current groynes are additionally to be prolonged. The work, which started firstly of October, is scheduled to be accomplished in mid-February 2025.

On the seaside, three to eight meter lengthy groynes fabricated from pine wooden shall be put in, and from the water-beach line, licensed hardwood shall be put in at sea that’s immune to the ship’s borer mussel (“teredo navalis”). The prices are round a million euros. According to the Schwerin Ministry of the Environment, the federal authorities is contributing 70 % of the financing as a part of the joint activity of “improving agricultural structure and coastal protection”.

According to the ministry, round 550 million euros have been spent on defending the outer, lagoon and lagoon coasts in MV since 1991. Among different issues, nearly 30 kilometers of coastal safety dikes had been strengthened or newly constructed. The new groynes are close by of the brand new 720 meter lengthy pier in entrance of Prerow, which was solely opened in mid-October.

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