Flood and coast partners gather for 2017 conference
...the annual calendar is tomorrow’s Flood and Coast Conference 2017. The conference has been shaped by an advisory committee, which I chair, and is made up of representatives from all...
Flood
Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
Flood risk engineers: the next generation
John Curtin with recent flood foundation course graduates Penny Cox and Aoife Harte [Right].14 years ago I led the creation of our first flood risk engineering degree programme. Today sees...
Building flood resilience into the fabric of Britain
...the ever increasing risk of flooding. Following the devastating winter flooding of 2015/16 we joined forces to publish the property flood resilience action plan. It’s recommendations represent a significant commitment...
We’ve repaired and prepared - a year after storms caused devastating floods
It’s now one year on from Storm Desmond, the first of the storms that brought heavy bands of rain and caused significant flooding last winter. December 2015 was the wettest month for the UK since records began in 1910. Around …
Winter is coming…
Last December Storm Desmond hammered the UK, putting many of our Monitoring & Forecasting Duty Officers through their paces. Just short of a year later and we’re at the end of our training programme with an additional officers trained across …
Preparing for that rainy day....
I work in a flood resilience team in East Anglia and my role focuses on working with local communities to help them understand their flood risk https://floodsdestroy.campaign.gov.uk/. Working with communities across such a diverse area is in my (unbiased!) view …
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?...
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 …