Talk:Coastal Management

Article merges
I disagree with merginr riprap into this article, it has many other uses besides Coast Mangement (sp?), such as biofilters, bioswales, dam spillways, drainage fields and drywells. --Duk 18:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I too oppose the merge on the basis that revetting things is by no means exclusive to coastal defences eg peristalith. adamsan 17:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I also disagree with merging this article. It serves it's purpose most relevantly as it's own article.  I got here from concrete ships.  Soulsrocker 20:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

revetment also has a meaning in military science. M-w.com says "EMBANKMENT; especially : a barricade to provide shelter (as against bomb fragments or strafing)"

Spelling Mistake in Diagram
I noticed that there is a spelling mistake in the diagram Coast Mangement.png. It reads "Additionally, there usually cheaper..." whereas it should say, "Additionally, they're usually cheaper...". Is there any way of easily changing this or does the diagram need remaking? --Matthew Dingley 17:38, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

About Merging "Revetment" with "Costal Management"
The term "revetment" applies to much more to slopes in general (slopes, riverbanks AND shorlines) and should stand on its own or be merged with another geotechnical topic.

(also...revetments are also used as barricades against shrapnel in warfare)


 * Keep it. There is nothing wrong with having an article on revetment provided the whole subject is covered, perhaps by links between articles. The technique of revetting is used in river management, coastal management, road and railway cuttings as well as in ancient, medieval and modern fortifications. Even the shoring of a pipe trench in the road or a mine gallery is a form of revetment.
 * The Revetment article itself would be well adapted to dealing with questions of the relief of hydraulic and other pressure and the variation of these forces with the height of the revetment and so on. Links should then be made between it and other articles such as Coastal management, Fortification so as to illustrate the significance of revetment in its various contexts. Be patient and the present, unbalanced state of affairs will even itself out. A little nudging such as by this merger proposal, is part of that process. (RJP 08:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC))

Cost
Can we get dates for the estimated costs?

Have changed:

"Cost – est. £5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000-£200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, per 100m,(i.e it aint cheap!)". That's not the kind of article we need.

Merging with Breakwater
I'm against it. A breakwater has a role in coastal management but breakwaters are also used for entirely different reasons - building artifial harbours and protecting anchorages - so breakwaters deserve an article in their own right. 193.115.188.2 12:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Strongly disagree. The breakwater article stands very well on its own. -RNLion 01:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)