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Working together to reduce flood risk in Winchester

Posted by: Flood Resilience Officer, Posted on: 28 October 2015 - Categories: Community, Flood
The flooded north walls of the arts college in Winchester

After the terrible floods of early 2014, we have been busily working in partnership with Hampshire County Council, Winchester City Council and Southampton University to deliver new defences to reduce the risk of flooding in Winchester. The crystal clear waters …

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Using data to improve the environment

Posted by: Sir Philip Dilley, Posted on: 26 October 2015 - Categories: Other areas of our work
LIDAR survey showing Sharpham Vineyard, Totnes

LIDAR survey showing Sharpham Vineyard, Totnes We live in a data rich world. As an engineer I know the power of data in the design and implementation of new urban...

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Floods, Camera, Action – a tweet of a job

Posted by: James Sarginson, Posted on: 23 October 2015 - Categories: Community, Flood, Uncategorized, Water
Jamie Sarginson with one of the cameras at Illey Br

 I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of different projects since working for the Environment Agency but I feel most proud of the work that I’ve been doing more recently – using high tech cameras to monitor flooding. …

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Clamping down on illegal fishing

Posted by: Darren Wakenell, Posted on: 22 October 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Fisheries enforcement officer

One of the questions we get asked a lot is "where does my rod licence money go?" Darren Wakenell, is one of our bailiffs. Here he explains more about his role.   I've been a fisheries enforcement officer for 13 …

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Engineering with nature to help reduce flooding

Posted by: Andy Croxford, Posted on: 20 October 2015 - Categories: Climate change, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood
Medmerry Managed realignment

Flooding can occur from many different sources. We saw this in winter 2013-2014 when the storm surge caused flooding on the east coast, there was widespread river flooding across many counties, chalk springs started to flow leading to groundwater flooding …

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Protecting Morpeth together

Posted by: CLLR Ian Swithenbank – Northumberland County Council’s cabinet member for local services, Posted on: 19 October 2015 - Categories: Community, Flood
Morpeth Flood Alleviation Scheme plaque on the opening day

Northumberland County Council speak about the partnership approach to the £26m Morpeth Flood Alleviation Scheme and how their £12 million contribution has helped deliver the ambitious project. It’s the first time a major scheme to reduce the risk of flooding …

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The misconceptions of flooding

Posted by: Christina Worsley, Posted on: 16 October 2015 - Categories: Flood

In this guest blog Christina Worsley from not-for-profit environmental charity Newground CIC writes about people's misconceptions about flood risk and how people can better protect themselves. At Newground I work with individuals, communities and businesses across Lancashire to help them to manage …

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Flood action for businesses this winter

Posted by: Mike Still, Posted on: 12 October 2015 - Categories: Flood

Mike Still, Managing Director, Client Service at Marsh, Chairman of Business in the Community’s Business Emergency Resilience Group and The Prince’s Business Ambassador to Scotland, writes in time for winter about a business led-approach that might just help a business …

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Flood defence engineers need construction toys, mud and the outdoors

Posted by: Rebecca Sharpe, Posted on: 9 October 2015 - Categories: Community, Flood

In this blog, flood risk management engineer Rebecca Sharpe writes about why her role is rewarding and says girls and boys should be encouraged to get into engineering. I am a flood risk management engineer, working in Asset Performance. I’m …

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Breathing new life into historic Ipswich

Posted by: Andrew Usborne, Posted on: 8 October 2015 - Categories: Flood

My name’s Andrew Usborne, I'm the project manager for the Ipswich Flood Defence scheme, a multi million pound flood project to upgrade Ipswich’s flood defences. Ipswich is one of the oldest towns in England. Dating back to the seventh century, …

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