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Flooding and Flood Defence

Flooding Guildford Feb 2020The Environment Agency’s flood resilience team is hosting a drop-in event in Guildford to help raise awareness of local flood-risk.

DSIT NEW TECH PREDICTS EXTREME WEATHERScience and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has announced a new £40 million project for scientists using the latest tech and real-time data to predict where future flooding and droughts will strike next in the UK.

FLOOD DEFENCE SCHEME LEIGH FLOOD EXPANSION CONTROL GATESThe Environment Agency is progressing work on the £24.8 million Leigh Flood Storage Area expansion and Hildenborough embankment scheme which protect communities in Tonbridge and Hildenborough are at risk of flooding from the River Medway.

Flood coastal defence Lydd Ranges aerial viewThe Environment Agency has completed the £40 million Lydd Ranges sea defence scheme which will see Lydd and Romney Marsh better protected from flooding for the next 25 years.

FLOOD DEFENCE SCHEME Cockett Wick image 2The Environment Agency has completed the Cockett Wick Seawall Improvement scheme ensuring more than 3,000 homes and businesses in one of the most vulnerable areas of the country are better protected from tidal flooding.

Castlehill and Holderness DrainThe Environment Agency has completed a new flood risk management project to better protect hundreds of homes and businesses on the east side of Hull from flooding.

A pioneering Environment Agency-led natural flood management scheme to bolster flood protection in County Durham has been completed.

LONDON CLIMATE RESILIENCE REVIEW JULY 2024The London Climate Resilience Review has today published its full and final report into London’s preparedness for climate impacts including heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, storms, sea level rise and subsidence.

BEACH Freya shingle beach at PevenseyThe Environment Agency is progressing work on the next phase of the Pevensey Bay to Eastbourne Coastal Management Scheme - one of the largest coastal flood risk projects in the country.

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY FLOOD SAFETY RESERVOIR RugeleyThe Environment Agency led a training exercise at Rugeley flood storage area in Staffordshire this weekend, to rehearse emergency plans in the event of a major incident at the dam.

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