Using Herbicides to protect our flood defences from invasive plants

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The Environment Agency is responsible for carrying out maintenance work on its assets to ensure they will perform as they should during a flood. Field team operatives and contractors use various tools and methods to carry out seasonal vegetation management on sections of watercourse that are within a flood alleviation scheme. This work is carried …

Engineers and the Environment – natural allies in our fight for a more flood resilient nation

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In January, the Prime Minister launched the Government’s new national 25 year environment plan – quite a moment for those of us who’ve worked our whole careers in the environmental field. While the initial media interest has been in supermarket …

Celebrating marsh and mud on World Wetlands Day

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The Great Fens wetland at sunset

Marsh and mud have often received a bad press. In centuries past, coastal mudflats and marshes were thought of as derelict, even dangerous, places – scenes of criminal escapes and smuggled cargos landed. But over the last few decades, we …