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Paull Holme Strays Managed Realignment

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Degree of synergistic effects and conflicts according to WFD aims

This measure was about the creation of new intertidal habitat which provides a much needed habitat in the Humber Estuary and allows land to be used as a natural flood defence, which in turn can also improve water and sediment quality and reduce sedimentation in the main channel, which in turn reduces dredging requirements. The compensation measure was not designed to meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). However, it covers two of five main pressures the polyhaline zone of the Humber estuary is affected by.

Table 5: Main pressures of the polyhaline zone of the Humber
Indicator code Main pressures polyhaline zone Humber Effect? Description
- - - 0 + ++
S.I. 1.1 Habitat loss and degradation during the last 100 years: Intertidal         X New intertidal habitats like salt marshes were created.
D.I. 2.6 Capital dredging     X      
D.I. 2.4 Maintenance dredging       X   Fewer requirements for dredging as sedimentation occurring through accretionary trends in intertidal and saltmarsh habitats. 
D.I. 2.5a Relocation on dredged material     X      
D.I. 2.12 Ports development     X      

S.I. = state indicator;
D.I. = driver indicator


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2c. Degree of synergistic effects and conflicts according to uses 3b. Degree of synergistic effects according to Natura 2000 aims

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