Environment Agency

Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort Project

Environment Agency, 18 October 2024 - Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Flood Maintenance, Flood Planning, Invasive species

My name is Pippa Keynes and I work for the Environment Agency in East Anglia. Part of my job involves managing the Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort project. This was launched by Fisheries, biodiversity and geomorphology (FBG colleagues in 2017), and …

Stepping up maintenance to prepare for winter in Essex

Environment Agency, 17 October 2024 - Flood, Flood Maintenance, Flood Planning

David Simpson, from an Essex Field Team explains how Environment Agency preparations for winter begins well ahead of the long nights drawing in. As the summer was winding down, the Environment Agency was already undertaking important winter readiness actions. It …