It's now home to thousands of seabirds but 50 years ago it had a very different purpose
If you visit the Lincolnshire coast today you'll see hundreds of wind turbines turning natural power into electricity for people living nearby. Some fifty years ago the government tried to harness nature in a different way, spending the equivalent of £30million building two islands, Lincolnshire Live reports.
Put simply, if it had worked, the plan would have turned large parts of The Wash into a freshwater reservoir, but being located on a tidal estuary created an obvious problem. The project was approved in 1974 but it didn't take long for it to be shelved. "The scheme was originally intended to see if a barrage would be feasible. Instead, bunded reservoirs were created which is why the islands were doughnut-shaped as they were used as freshwater reservoirs.
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