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> The Thames Barrier (worth a google if you don't know of it) is unlikely to be effective within 10 to 20 years. Not quite true. The Thames Barrier is expected
by avianlyric 7y ago
> The Thames Barrier (worth a google if you don't know of it) is unlikely to be effective within 10 to 20 years.
Not quite true. The Thames Barrier is expected to remain effective for the next 70 years (till 2070).
There’s a plan to figure out it’s replacement sometime around 2050.
You read more about it here if you’re interested:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/thames-estuary-2100-te2100/thames-estuary-2100-te2100 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/thames-estuary-21...
- Jedd 7y agoThank you. I'd had in my mind that 2040 was when it approached (effective) EOL, and from the country that had 40 years to plan for the Concorde replacement, I was not overly optimistic. Seems there has been a general trend of increasing need to use the barrier, though the 2014 'blip' threw this number upwards. I'm seeing some references to 'it's fine until 2050-2070', but OTOH I'm not seeing a lot of 'we've underestimated global warming effects, so sea level won't be as bad as we thought' stories -- so presumably we should be looking towards the lower end of that 2050-2070 range. I read through the v.interesting link you provided -- it reads very gov.uk. Sadly, after the past couple of years of gov.uk activity I'm not particularly sanguine that they will actually attend to this work.