Posts about our work managing flood risk and responding to flooding
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. …
...and what flood risk benefits they achieved. Natural flood management in action – not just models. Although the flood risk benefits of natural flood management I am sure will continue...
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 …
...estimated £37 billion of economic damage to the UK. When I visited our teams at the Hull Barrier and South Ferriby to see our preparations in action, I was struck...
...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...
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...
...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...
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 …
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 …
