Material excavated from tunnelling work on the Crossrail project in central London will be recycled to create a huge wildlife reserve in Essex.
Faber Maunsell/AECOM is working with the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) to create the Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project – the largest wetland project of its type in Europe.
Clay, chalk, sand and gravel will be transferred by ship to Wallasea Island, where it will raise the land level of the island, helping create 668ha of coastal wildlife habitat. The material will create hillocks and dips into which seawater will ebb and flow.
Faber Maunsell/ AECOM associate director, Philip McLoughlin, said: ‘The material from Crossrail will raise the land to different levels that, through managed realignment, will create a variety of sustainable habitats for the benefit of people and wildlife.’
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