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The Bristol Channel Barrage Project
Authors: Eric Montgomery Wilson, Brian Severn, Martin Carson Swales, and Donald HeneryAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Coastal Engineering 1968
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The paper outlines a proposal to barrage the Bristol channel between Cardiff and Weston-supermare. The benefits from energy generation and to road communications are assessed in detail and in monetary terms. Benefits to navigation and drainage are discussed but not assessed. The effect of the barrage on tidal range, siltation and sediment movement is considered and a suggestion, previously made by others, for a larger international airport on land reclaimed from the enclosed area, is developed.
Cost estimates for the proposal are made and it is shown that the benefit/cost ratio is greater than unity even when only energy and traffic are considered.
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Coastal Engineering 1968
Pages: 1304 - 1325
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© 1969 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Dec 31, 2015
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Eric Montgomery Wilson
Reader in Civil Engineering, University of Salford, England
Brian Severn
Chief Engineer, Tidal Power Consultants Ltd, Montreal, Canada.
Martin Carson Swales
Postgraduate research students at University of Sheffield, England.
Donald Henery
Postgraduate research students at University of Sheffield, England.
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