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Flooding and Flood Defence

FLOOD ROAD SIGNThe Environment Agency is warning that flooding impacts from Storm Babet in England are set to continue this week.

FLOODEX 2023Professor Jim Hall - Lead Commissioner on Flooding- at the National Infrastructure Commission will deliver the keynote presentation at the Floodex UK conference and exhibition which will take place next month on 22nd and 23rd November at the Excel exhibition centre in London’s docklands.

WATER BUTTWessex Water and partners are progressing work to tackle flooding in Chard - Chard residents are being urged to back a new phase of the drive to reduce historic local issues with flooding by joining a pilot project that could see more than 800 water butts handed out to homes in the Somerset town.

SEPA GENERICThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is warninng communities to ‘keep mindful across Monday’ as flood water impacts remain from the weekend’s severe weather event.

FLOOD SCHEME Lowdham NottsThe Environment Agency has started work on a major new flood storage reservoir to better protect homes and businesses in the Nottinghamshire village of Lowdham from flooding.

FLOOD SCHEME COCKETT WICK ESSEX COAST A multi-million project on the Essex coast has reached a new milestone after thousands of tonnes of rock armour arrived from Norway.

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY man-in-ea-jacket 1The Environment Agency is inviting residents in the River Severn area to join a Citizens’ Panel on the Future of Our Rivers.

Natural Flood Management - Leaky Barrier Smithills Estate BoltonThe Government has announced that £25 million in ring-fenced funding will be invested in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding.

Brading-marshes-nature-reserveThe Environment Agency (EA) is doing groundwork investigations to better understand the composition and condition of the embankment that covers 1.7km along Embankment Road, from Bembridge sailing club to St Helens.

FLOODS VIRGINIA USA MAY 16 - NOAAA new study is warning that most coastal communities will encounter 100-year floods annually by the end of the century, even under a moderate scenario where carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2040.

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