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	[https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C786F&Category=FREEPUBS Culvert, screen and outfall manual, (CIRIA C786)] published by CIRIA in 2019, defines overtopping is: ‘The passage of water over a component such as a floodbank or seawall, due to wave action. Overtopping does not necessarily represent ‘failure’ of a flood defence to perform its function.’		[https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C786F&Category=FREEPUBS Culvert, screen and outfall manual, (CIRIA C786)] published by CIRIA in 2019, defines overtopping is: ‘The passage of water over a component such as a floodbank or seawall, due to wave action. Overtopping does not necessarily represent ‘failure’ of a flood defence to perform its function.’
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		+	[https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C793F&Category=FREEPUBS&WebsiteKey=3f18c87a-d62b-4eca-8ef4-9b09309c1c91 Groynes in coastal engineering (CIRIA C793)], published by CIRIA in 2020, defines overtopping as: ‘Water carried over the top of a coastal defence due to wave run-up exceeding the crest height.’

	It defines overwashing as: 'The effect of waves overtopping a coastal defence, often carrying sediment landwards which is then lost to the beach system.'		It defines overwashing as: 'The effect of waves overtopping a coastal defence, often carrying sediment landwards which is then lost to the beach system.'

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−	~~Overtopping~~ is: ‘The passage of water over a component such as a floodbank or seawall, due to wave action. Overtopping does not necessarily represent ‘failure’ of a flood defence to perform its function.’	+	[https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C786F&Category=FREEPUBS Culvert, screen and outfall manual, (CIRIA C786)] published by CIRIA in 2019, defines overtopping is: ‘The passage of water over a component such as a floodbank or seawall, due to wave action. Overtopping does not necessarily represent ‘failure’ of a flood defence to perform its function.’

−	~~Ref [https~~:~~//www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C786F&Category=FREEPUBS Culvert, screen and outfall manual~~, ~~(CIRIA C786)] published by CIRIA in 2019~~.	+	It defines overwashing as: 'The effect of waves overtopping a coastal defence, often carrying sediment landwards which is then lost to the beach system.'

	See also: Overflowing.		See also: Overflowing.

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Overtopping is: ‘The passage of water over a component such as a floodbank or seawall, due to wave action. Overtopping does not necessarily represent ‘failure’ of a flood defence to perform its function.’

Ref [https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C786F&Category=FREEPUBS Culvert, screen and outfall manual, (CIRIA C786)] published by CIRIA in 2019.

See also: Overflowing.

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