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Flooding and Flood Defence

The Environment Agency will this month set out its plans to construct a flood defence defence improvement scheme for the town of Stanhope, County Durham.

Ten coastal towns have received new funding for projects that will help create and safeguard nearly 1,400 jobs and help with essential repairs in areas affected by the winter storms.

Anglian Water will start work next week on a major £1.2m scheme to protect Louth homes from flooding.

A £4.5 million programme of work by the Environment Agency is well under way to repair flood defences in the Midlands which damaged by high tides and river levels during the winter.

Northumbrian Water is starting work on two separate flood defence schemes in Westerhope, Newcastle at a combined cost of £3.15 million to protect a total of 26 homes from flooding.

The Environment Agency has launched a new consultation on the Wash East Coastal Management Strategy to identify the most suitable way of managing flood and erosion risk.

The Environment Agency has published an update on its plans for the proposed £30 million Exeter flood defence scheme - which it is working on in partnership with Exeter City Council and Devon County Council.

Construction work has started on the £36 million Clacton and Holland-on-Sea coast protection scheme in Essex.

The Environment Agency is modifying its proposals for the Perry Barr and Witton Flood Risk Management Scheme because of budgetary constraints.

Taverham in Norfolk will be protected by the latest in innovative and sustainable flood prevention measures in the future as work on the East of England’s biggest sustainable drainage system (SuDS) gets underway this week.

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