Uncovering England’s landscape by 2020
...or contact us at geomatics_data@environment-agency.gov.uk if you have any feedback or suggestions. Lidar imagery of London. Mapping the country in this way will help us better understand flood risk and...
How frightened should we be of flooding?
There seem to be two truths in the modern world – everyone seems to be time-poor and TV and movies love a zombie! Well the second one is probably stretching it but with Halloween approaching we at the Environment Agency …
Good flood forecasting requires great collaboration
The ultimate job of the Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC), is to help people stay safe when it floods. We do this by forecasting - as many days ahead as we can - where will flood, when it will flood and …
Working with partners to deliver £2.5 billion flood investment programme
Following the 2013 Spending Review, for the first time we have a longer-term, 6 year plan to improve flood and coastal erosion risk management infrastructure. Our revised investment programme was one of the elements discussed at the recent annual Flood and Coast Conference. …
We’ve repaired and prepared - a year after storms caused devastating floods
It’s now one year on from Storm Desmond, the first of the storms that brought heavy bands of rain and caused significant flooding last winter. December 2015 was the wettest month for the UK since records began in 1910. Around …
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....
Know your flood risk and get ‘winter ready’
On the day we launch our annual Flood Action Campaign, John Curtin, the Environment Agency’s Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management writes about the importance of being #floodaware. So what’s the problem? I recently passed my 25th work …
Public asked to report flooding and severe weather event impacts
The Met Office and Environment Agency are always striving to improve forecasts and warnings and to empower people to make good decisions that protect lives, property and infrastructure. This is particularly important during flooding and other severe weather. It’s now …
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. …