Flood
Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
Julie Foley, Director of Flood Risk Strategy and Adaptation Understanding of flood and coastal erosion risk is vital to ensuring that policy makers, practitioners and communities are ready to adapt to a changing climate. The Environment Agency is required to …
By Philip Duffy, Environment Agency CEO. This week is Flood Action Week, our annual media campaign to raise awareness about how everyone can take action to know their flood risk and prepare. Today alongside Penny Endersby, Chief Executive of the …
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 …
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 …
Surface water flooding is localised and complex. There are currently 3.2 million properties in areas at risk in England. As the September floods have shown, it is a real and growing threat to life, property, infrastructure, and to the economy. …
It’s Flood Action Week so we’re showcasing the great work of our field teams in Hampshire and Sussex. These teams play a vital role reducing the risk of flooding to communities in the south east of England. In Hampshire and …
In 2018, the Environment Agency commissioned the Ipswich Tidal Barrier, a critical infrastructure project costing nearly £70 million. Six years on, the Suffolk Asset Performance Team tell us what has happened since. The Ipswich Tidal Barrier consists of a 200-tonne …
Sam MacAllister and Tracy Hodsman from our asset performance teams explain how looking beneath the surface can be a key part of ensuring those on dry land have their flood risk reduced. The Environment Agency manages many different structures up …
Abigail Ovenden, Asset Management Engagement Advisor, looks at how the Environment Agency reduces flood risk in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire by cutting vegetation. Environment Agency teams (and contractors on our behalf) manage vegetation and weed growth along 2,210 kilometres of Main …
My name is Paul Dutchburn, and I am the Asset Performance Team Leader in the South Humber & East Coast (SHEC) in the Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire Area. Six months after the eighth storm of the 2023-2024 season, I am now …
