Creating a safer Severn Estuary
My name is Dave Shaw and I work as an Operations Field Team Leader in Flood and Coastal Risk Management. The work that me and my team do is focused in Gloucestershire but we often help in other parts of …
Flood
Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
Repairing flood defences in Dorset
Work is well underway across Dorset and Wiltshire to repair damage caused by flooding and coastal storms. In this blog we hear from Mark Goldingay about the work to repair damaged assets. Assets are banks, pumping stations, sluices, gates and …
Repairing flood defences in Somerset
With dredging on target, work will soon be at full speed to repair the damage caused by winter flooding in Somerset. In this blog we hear from Pat Hall who has been helping to plan the repair works across Somerset. …
High Flyers - Tales from the Aerial Survey Team
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Susan Winter, Posted on:
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Climate change, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Water
If the sky’s clear and you look up there’s a slim chance you’ll see a small purple and white plane flying back and forth, especially if you live in an area at risk of flooding or along the coast. But …
Fish SOS! How you can help
It may seem strange that a Fisheries Officer would be attending ‘SOSfest’, a public safety festival! It was filled with stalls manned by the Police, Fire Service, Ambulance and Armed Forces to name a few. My flood resilience colleagues were …
Smoother spawning
As a Hydrometry & Telemetry Technical Specialist it’s my job to provide my colleagues and our partner organisations with technical information on surface water, rainfall and groundwater. For the past year or so I’ve been working on the Midlands Fish …
Work hard, cycle hard - The Grand Départ, Yorkshire
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Alistair Laban, Posted on:
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Categories:
Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Other areas of our work
When I heard rumours of Le Tour de France starting here in Yorkshire, I kept my eyes glued to news feeds and twitter for confirmation. The moment Gary Verity made the announcement in December 2012 I decided to put my …
A Yorkshireman’s take on Le Grand Départ
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Martin Christmas, Posted on:
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Climate change, Flood, Other areas of our work
The banners are up along the route, potholes have been remedied, pop-up campsites are popping up and yellow bikes are being fly-tipped at a prodigious rate along the highways and byways around my home town of Otley. The source …
Communicating about dredging
There has been a lot of discussion on Twitter about the Somerset dredge in the past couple of weeks. Keeping the community updated is an important part of this project. I know everyone wants a good job done quickly before …
Protecting water quality on the Parrett and Tone
The first glimmer of sun might have appeared in the South West but many on the Somerset Levels are still dealing with the aftermath of flood water devastating their home or business. We ran a flood recovery surgery last week in …