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Old 8th Dec 2011, 19:25
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Such a structure and wall would also need to be high enough so the site was above the tides, and that is quite some volume on the 6 runway site you propose.
Not an unheard of volume though, the Rotterdam extension is about 7 square miles and directly onto the North Sea.

Ultimately this is a political decision, the rest of it is just engineering and fairly well understood engineering at that.
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