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What is drought? 

What is drought? 

Over the past 50 years, England has suffered lots of droughts - some of the more notable ones include 1975-76, 1989-92, 1995-96, 2004-06, 2011-12 and recently 2018, 2022 and 2025. But what does this mean, how does the Environment Agency …

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Right waste for the right place

Posted by: Alan Holmes, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Waste

The appetite amongst the waste management industry to increase understanding of waste duty of care – getting waste to the right place – is high. Earlier this year, CIWM and ESA announced their support for a year of action, creating …

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Flood Recovery in Kendal

Posted by: Elizabeth Kelly, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Flood

From being part of the response team during the flood event to inspecting our flood defences and identifying repairs, we’ve been very busy in the months since the devastating flooding caused by Storm Desmond. I’ve been spending a significant amount …

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How we carry out fish surveys

Posted by: Dave Hellard, Posted on: 11 May 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

What can you use an aerated tank, stop nets & specialist electric fishing equipment for? Our Sampling and Collection teams and Fisheries teams are working together to survey the fish in the River Loddon and Blackwater, as part of a …

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The Only Way is Wessex – 20 years of the Environment Agency

Posted by: Judith Crompton, Posted on: 11 May 2016 - Categories: Flood

I was in at the start of the Environment Agency – well, actually, years before that, in its earlier life as the water company. Then, as a nervous conservation officer in 1984 (32 years ago), I was handed a typewriter …

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Restoring salmon stocks – our journey to a new approach

Posted by: Sarah Chare, Posted on: 6 May 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Removing pennywort

Posted by: Ben Norrington, Posted on: 5 May 2016 - Categories: Water

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 …

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Piles, pontoons and pumps: making preparations for the Ipswich Barrier

Posted by: Ruth Snowden, Posted on: 5 May 2016 - Categories: Flood

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 …

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Environment Agency 20 years of water resources

Posted by: Pauline Smith, Posted on: 3 May 2016 - Categories: Water

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 …

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Helping communities recover from flooding

Posted by: Rebecca Arkley, Posted on: 19 April 2016 - Categories: Flood

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 …

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Rescuing rare and protected Lamprey

Posted by: Brecht Morris, Posted on: 13 April 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Brecht Morris mud larking for lamprey

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 …

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