A new history and wildlife trail across Hull’s Beverley and Barmston Drain sees wildlife ‘guides’ Wendy the Water Vole and Percy the Perch help reconnect people to their natural environment. The pilot project – along nine bridges across the drain – gives historical information and helps the community spot wildlife native to the location. It […]
A Fresh Water Future describes how better water management requires a spatially relevant approach, involving all the relevant actors in a way that empowers them to be engaged and to act. While this is a fine aim, SuDS champion Jo Bradley debates whether we can ever achieve it?
The ICE Handbook of Urban Drainage Practice. Written and edited by leading experts in the field, Urban Drainage Practice provides an overview of current key challenges, opportunities and future directions of urban drainage in a practical and accessible way. Written and edited by leading experts in the field, Urban Drainage Practice provides an overview of current key challenges, opportunities […]
Last week’s floods in New York City overwhelmed drainage systems after more than two inches of rain per hour. Residents living in basements and on ground floods were particularly affected. The events were widely covered, including dramatic videos and pictures, by Sky News, the BBC, the Guardian and elsewhere.
Water companies covering England and Wales have this week published final Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans, setting out how they will work in partnership to improve drainage and environmental water quality over the next 25 years. The plans cover flooding, pollution, storm overflows, nature-based solutions, SuDS and more. Combines, more than £108 billion will need […]
New Civil Engineer The highways industry is facing a critical knowledge gap regarding the installation and maintenance of drainage infrastructure according to a leading water management firm. ACO Water Management has surveyed 100 infrastructure and highways engineers and compiled the responses in its new report Highways Drainage: The Route to Surface Water Management, which is also […]
Published 16 February 2022 The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems. Water and sewerage companies must produce drainage and wastewater management plans (DWMPs) (they must cover a minimum of 25 years) plans looking at current and future capacity, pressures, and […]
Bright Blue, the ‘independent’ think tank (open to liberal conservatives everywhere) has published In Deep Water? Mapping the impacts of flooding in the UK since 2007 Also covered in The Guardian From the research The COVID-19 pandemic has, sadly, shown that government planning for national emergencies and crises can fail to imagine the full range […]