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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. The estuary is spanned by just the one crossing, the Humber Bridge , pictured above, a two point twenty two mile wide, single span, suspension bridge which was opened in Another engineering feature of the estuary is the River Hull Tidal Barrier, located at the point where the River Hull drains into the estuary.
Humber Services - www. Humber Environment - www. River Humber - www. Humber Port - www. Search this site. Its catchment area drains one fifth of England 24, km2 , thereby providing the largest single input of freshwater to the North Sea from the English coastline.
There are over , people living and working within the Humber floodplain and 12 million within the overall catchment area. With inhabitants per km2, the Humber is the most densely populated large European estuary. It is estimated that up to 1. The Humber Estuary is one of the most important estuaries in the UK for commerce, with an expanding port complex and extensive bank-side industries. Further smaller facilities are operated by independent port operators around the estuary and along its tributaries.
Industry on the Humber Estuary includes chemical works, oil refineries and power stations, with most of this activity located on the south bank of the middle estuary and around Hull on the north bank. The Humber is of ecological importance for a number of habitats and species. In particular, the intertidal mudflats provide an internationally important feeding and roosting resource for migratory and wintering waterfowl, with a peak of around , birds in winter.
First, the Humber Estuary has a shifting bed and the navigable channel along which ships can travel is always changing. Therefore, a suspension bridge with no support piers in mid-stream would not obstruct the estuary. Second, because of the geology and topography of the area, the cost of constructing a tunnel would have been excessive. Work on the construction took eight years, during which time upwards of one thousand workers were employed at times of peak activity.
Traffic first crossed the bridge on 24th June and on 17th July Her Majesty the Queen performed the formal opening ceremony.
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