Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
The ultimate job of the Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC), is to help people stay safe when it floods. We do this by forecasting - as many days ahead as we can - where will flood, when it will flood and …
Flooding is an international issue. In the last month, there have been flash floods in Coverack, Cornwall and in Paris 27 days of rain fell in one night. In Japan, nearly 400,000 people were evacuated following torrential rain and in …
Last week, the Met Office published a report saying there is a 1 in 3 chance of a new rainfall record somewhere in England and Wales every winter. This warning comes nearly a decade after Sir Michael Pitt said that …
My son Isaac is 10 years old this June. He was born during the wettest summer I can remember. I was a Field Operations team leader at the time, based in Short Ferry near Lincoln. While I was at …
The phrase “a picture tells a thousand words” really does ring true in the high-pressured environment of responding to a large scale flooding event. That’s why new technologies that allow our staff in an incident room to see what’s happening …
After the floods in 2007 in Sheffield the Environment Agency undertook a comprehensive programme of works to clear the River Don of tree growth, vegetation and debris. Both eyewitness accounts and subsequent modelling demonstrated the capacity of the channel was …
Following the 2013 Spending Review, for the first time we have a longer-term, 6 year plan to improve flood and coastal erosion risk management infrastructure. Our revised investment programme was one of the elements discussed at the recent annual Flood and Coast Conference. …
Hardly a day seems to go by when natural flood management is not in the news. Since the December 2015 floods, there has considerable political and public support for natural flood management. Actually, natural flood management – and the …
Flood forecasting is an incredibly exciting place to be right now with so many innovations designed to give communities better warning if it floods. The work we do can save lives by informing people in advance. I’ve worked in flood …
Flood and coastal risk management is an area where people naturally look to the Environment Agency for leadership. After all, we hold the strategic overview of flood and coastal risk management, and with colleagues across the Defra Group we have …
