Last December Storm Desmond hammered the UK, putting many of our Monitoring & Forecasting Duty Officers through their paces. Just short of a year later and we’re at the end of our training programme with an additional officers trained across …
The Upper Aire Catchment is located in one of the most picturesque parts of the country. Fisheries officer Pete Turner talks about his work in helping it be a haven for all. If Yorkshire is God’s own county, the Upper …
The brown trout was recently voted the nation's favourite fish. Here fisheries technical officer Pete Turner talks about his work to help them thrive in Yorkshire. Eastburn Beck, like many tributaries of the River Aire, has its problems. Over the …
It has been over 200 days since communities across Yorkshire had their Christmas stolen by Storm Eva. Flood defences were damaged and our telemetry stations – which monitor river levels - logged record-breaking levels, alongside the obvious and devastating damage …
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 …
