Make your home more flood resilient
...is half the battle. How to protect your home Being told to ‘protect our own homes from being flooded’ is all very well, however, just how do we do this?...
Flood
Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
It's time to get ready for winter
...quarter (26%) of Brits already set a good example by checking in on older or vulnerable neighbours during winter, with others offering to clear paths or driveways in snowy conditions....
Communicating flood risk
Kate Marks, the Environment Agency’s Deputy Director of Flood Risk Mapping, Modelling and Data explains the background to the most recent changes in how we communicate flood risk. I love a good map, I even teach map reading in my spare …
What happens at our Flood Forecasting Centre?
I work in the Flood Forecasting Centre, a joint partnership between the Environment Agency and the Met Office. This is based in the Met Office’s 24/7 operations centre in Exeter. Our job is to tell people where the flood risk …
We’re prepared for flooding, are you?
Did you know that 100,000 young people live in an area at risk of flooding? But only 75% of 18-24 year olds checked if they are at risk in the last year? This is just one of the headlines from …
Know your flood risk and get ‘winter ready’
On the day we launch our annual Flood Action Campaign, John Curtin, the Environment Agency’s Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management writes about the importance of being #floodaware. So what’s the problem? I recently passed my 25th work …
Building a greener future
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Emma Howard Boyd, Posted on:
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agriculture, Cleaner Seas, Climate change, Community, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Greener business, Other areas of our work, Regulated industry, Uncategorized, Water
As I begin my tenure as Chair of the Environment Agency it is now, more than ever, that we need a bold new vision for the environment. Over the last 40 years EU legislation has helped shape and promote improvements …
Using ‘Sustainable Drainage’ to create better places
The Environment Agency’s mission is to create a better place for people and wildlife. And that is exactly what we’re doing through our work on a Sustainable Drainage Scheme. Recently, I visited a fabulous example of such a project in …
Why we all need to be better prepared for flooding this winter
The government’s National Flood Resilience Review (NFRR) has been published this week, along with a Property Level Resilience Report. You can read it here. The review looks at how the country can be better protected from future flooding and extreme …
On the road to recovery in Yorkshire
It has been over 200 days since communities across Yorkshire had their Christmas stolen by Storm Eva. Flood defences were damaged and our telemetry stations – which monitor river levels - logged record-breaking levels, alongside the obvious and devastating damage …