It has been more than 2 years since I became Deputy Director for Fisheries at the Environment Agency – the best job ever, by the way. When I started it was very quickly apparent that if we are to achieve …
Spreading itself across our waterways like a lush green carpet is one of nature’s enemies, growing up to 20cm a day and suffocating native plants and fish. Floating pennywort, originally from America, is an invasive plant that arrived in the …
My name’s Ruth Snowden. I’m a Senior Engineer for VBA, a joint venture between VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and Atkins. We’re working on a multi-million pound Environment Agency project to upgrade Ipswich’s flood defences. As a Senior Engineer my role is …
Twenty years ago, when the Environment Agency came into being, managing water resources was high on the political agenda: we were in the middle of a drought. Summer 1995 had been a scorcher with widespread low flows, and water supplies …
I’d been working in the Environment Agency’s Penrith flood resilience team for just six months when Storm Desmond hit. As residents in the area well know, the storm brought more than a month's rain to parts of Cumbria (as well …
I’m Brecht Morris, Fisheries Technical Officer for the Environment Agency. We have recently finished working with Natural England and English Heritage on a really interesting project in Herefordshire. Mortimers Cross Water Mill is an 18th century working mill on the …
I can’t believe it’s 20 years since the creation of the Environment Agency! So what was it like to evolve from the National Rivers Authority (NRA) into the EA? Bringing a multitude of waste regulation, air quality and nuclear specialists …
In West Norfolk local communities are working together and contributing to their flood defences in a new, efficient and innovative way. I work in the Flood and Coastal Risk Management team and part of our work is to review how …
This is a guest blog by Jack Perks. Jack is a professional wildlife photographer and specialises in freshwater fish. His work has featured on various television programmes, magazines, books and websites. He recently undertook a project to try and film every …
Amber Bannon is a Senior Technical Specialist at the Environment Agency. Here she writes about her new post at the Society for Radiological Protection. On 26 April I'll become the youngest President-Elect of the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP) …
