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Preparing for rising sea levels

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On the shores of the Humber Estuary, near Immingham, the Environment Agency is running a £4.9m project to reinforce a sea wall as a defence against rising sea levels.

The sea wall protects a power station, three chemical plants and 10,000 homes.

A new line of steel piles is being fitted along a one-mile stretch of the coast.

BBC environment correspondent David Shukman reports.

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