Seal Sands

Seal Sands
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Country	England
Region	North East
Unitary Authority	Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees
Location	Graythorp
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Area	294.4 ha (727.5 acres)
Notification	1966
Managed by	Natural England
Area of Search	Cleveland
Interest	Biological
Website : Map of site

Seal Sands (grid reference NZ529260) is a 294.37 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland, England, notified in 1966.

Situated in the mouth of the River Tees next to Greatham Creek and Seaton-on-Tees Channel, and accessible from the A178 road running between Seaton Carew and Port Clarence.

An area of reclaimed land is given over to chemical industries.

Chemical industries site

On land recovered from the sea, an area of Seal Sands is used as an industrial park for the Chemical Industry. Members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) using the site include: Ineos, Fine Organics, Central Area Transmission System (BP Group), SABIC, Vertellus, ConocoPhillips, Vopak, Simon Storage, Intertek, Harvest Operations. Greenergy and Air Products will soon operate their two plasma gasification waste-to-energy facilities at Seal Sands.

See also

Nearby

• Seaton Dunes and Common SSSI
• Tees and Hartlepool Foreshore and Wetlands SSSI
• River Tees
• Hartlepool nuclear power station
• Able UK
• Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster

Sources

• English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 5 August 2006).

External links

• English Nature (SSSI information)
• Site boundary map at English Nature's "Nature on the Map" website.