How do you reclaim land from sea?

HOW DO YOU RECLAIM LAND FROM SEA?

Land Reclamation is the process of creating new land from ocens, riverbeds or lakes. Some methods include InďŹ ll, Rainbowing and Deep Cement Mixing.

Advantages: Creates more usable land for construction and living.

Disagvantages: Expensive, May

damage marine life, Finite land resorces.

DEFINITION OF LAND RECLAMATION

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SMCRA

RA) The Surface Mining Control and mation Act of 1977 is the primary l law that regulates the environmental s of coal mining and land mation. You need to ensure that ver you’re planning to reclaim your land hasn’t already been enviromentally ted as land reclamation can cause e pollution and damage buy using sands, salts and soils.

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InďŹ ll is the easiest and most Land Reclamation.

By taking a large sum of hea and placing them into the b bed and building them up to The gaps between the rocks with the pressure of the wat and solid, creating the perfe

INFILL

t simple method of

avy rocks and bolders bottom of the sea/river o just above water level. s then become airtight ter making them sturdy ect base for new land.

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Once you’ve stacked t height , the next step over the top of the roc between the boulders into a safe surface.

Hence using rocks, cla in turn are ‘Infilling’.

INFILL

the rocks to your required is to then layer clay or soil ck-formation to seal any gaps s and compact the new land

ay and soil as ‘infill’, you then

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Rainbowing is a method of reclaiming land from the sea where a dredge-ship is used to project a mass mixture of water and sand into shallow areas of the ocean, building up the required height.

This method means that the sand mixture can be propelled up to 65 metres.

RAINBOWING

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The Jumeirah Palm Island was created in Dubai by using the form of Land Reclamation; Rainbowing.

The development cost somewhere within the region of $12.3 billion.

The structure began to take place in June 2001 and ďŹ nally ďŹ nished 5 years later in 2006 when residents began to move in.

Both of the Palm Islands are constructed from sand dredged from the bottom of the Persian Gulf by the Belgian company.

The centre of the Jumeirah Palm Island was created with 7 million tonnes of rock which were each individually placed with a crane.

JUMEIRAH PALM ISLAND

RAINBOWING

A Land Reclamation Booklet By Kitty Brame & Becca Butler