After the storm surge in 2023, several home owners along the coasts want to build dykes that can keep the seawater away.
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Several private companies are applying to the country’s coastal municipalities to build dykes, high-water walls and other protection against seawater.
This is reported by DR.
A survey among the coastal municipalities shows an increase in applications, which particularly occurred after the storm surge in October 2023.
In one year in the period after the storm surge, 51 of Denmark’s 76 coastal municipalities have received 139 applications.
In the two previous years, the same municipalities received 32 and 30 applications, respectively.
Haderslev Municipality has alone received 13 applications after the storm surge. One of them has come from 72 holiday home owners who have pooled DKK 900,000 together to protect their homes.
The chairman of the association of the 72 summer houses, Vincent Jordy, says that the storm surge and the fear of more in the future made the association act.
“We immediately realized that we had to take action if we wanted to be prepared for the next time”, says Vincent Jordy to DR.
Source: politiken.dk
