Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
Andy Graham, Head of Community Working Wetlands at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust writes about SuDS for Schools, a project to get children enthused about reducing flood risk. Looking to the future, it’s possible to feel down: more and more …
If you’ve watched movies such as The Cube, The Descent and The Panic Room, or simply spent longer than you’d like in a lift, the feeling of claustrophobia is one you can no doubt relate to. So imagine if it …
This is a guest blog by Simon Lewis, Head of Emergency Planning and Response at the British Red Cross. His team coordinates the charity's emergency planning and response work in the UK, which includes helping those impacted by flooding. If …
Jeremy Walker, chair of the innovative ‘Slowing the Flow’ project in North Yorkshire, explains how a range of land management measures are helping to reduce flood risk in the market town of Pickering. The project, which was officially completed this …
This is a guest blog by Polly Turton, a climate change adaptation consultant based in Arup’s Advanced Technology and Research (AT+R) team in London. It originally appeared on the M&S blog. The British love to talk about the weather. Comedians …
On the day we launch our Flood Action Campaign, John Curtin, the Environment Agency’s Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management writes about the importance of being #floodaware. In the last month alone we’ve seen the devastating impact that …
The Met Office and Environment Agency are always striving to improve forecasts and warnings and to empower people to make good decisions that protect lives, property and infrastructure. This is particularly important during flooding and other severe weather. It’s now …
After the terrible floods of early 2014, we have been busily working in partnership with Hampshire County Council, Winchester City Council and Southampton University to deliver new defences to reduce the risk of flooding in Winchester. The crystal clear waters …
I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of different projects since working for the Environment Agency but I feel most proud of the work that I’ve been doing more recently – using high tech cameras to monitor flooding. …
Flooding can occur from many different sources. We saw this in winter 2013-2014 when the storm surge caused flooding on the east coast, there was widespread river flooding across many counties, chalk springs started to flow leading to groundwater flooding …
