Make your home more flood resilient
...is half the battle. How to protect your home Being told to ‘protect our own homes from being flooded’ is all very well, however, just how do we do this?...
It's time to get ready for winter
...quarter (26%) of Brits already set a good example by checking in on older or vulnerable neighbours during winter, with others offering to clear paths or driveways in snowy conditions....
Floods, Camera, Action – a tweet of a job
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. …
Engineering with nature to help reduce flooding
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Andy Croxford, Posted on:
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Climate change, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood
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 …
Protecting Morpeth together
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CLLR Ian Swithenbank – Northumberland County Council’s cabinet member for local services, Posted on:
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Categories:
Community, Flood
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 …
Flood defence engineers need construction toys, mud and the outdoors
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 …
Breathing new life into historic Ipswich
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, …