A £5.6 million flood defence fund to help protect West Yorkshire’s communities and businesses from extreme weather has been signed off by regional leaders. The investment will be used to refurbish a flood channel in Leeds, redirect floodwater away from businesses and into the River Holme in Huddersfield, and create new areas of wetland to […]
The Environment Agency (EA) claims that an estimated 96,000 properties have been protected and as part of the EA’s response to flooding caused by Storm Babet. Further, twenty high volume pumps and five small volume pumps were deployed across several sites. The EA’s flood warning service sent out over 300,000 messages by email, telephone and […]
The Environment Agency has updated information on 3 innovative programmes to improve resilience to flooding and coastal change. The flood and coastal resilience innovation programme has allocated £150 million to 25 local areas. The coastal transition accelerator programme will see £36 million will be invested to adapt to the effects of climate change on the […]
A new research study published by Forest Research finds Great Britain’s trees and woodlands contribute over £400 million annually in terms of flood defence benefits. Trees and woodlands have long been known to play a vital role in flood resilience, but scientists are now able to establish the financial contribution they make in protecting communities […]
A £38 million Environment Agency scheme to upgrade the Foss Barrier in York has been officially opened. The project to improve the barrier, combined with completed flood defence work in York, better protects 2,000 properties and makes the city more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Following the devastating floods of Boxing Day 2015 […]
The Environment Agency has completed additional flood defence work in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, to alleviate issues around the A38 at Branston. The work, which started last summer in 2021, reduces flood risk to some 397 properties, including 18 affected by the flood of February 2020. The whole investment in Burton, including £2 million from the National […]
Promoting Adaptation to Changing Coasts project is a largely Interreg funded project with two arms – one in Devon (the Lower Otter Restoration Project) and the other in Normandy (the Saane Valley project). The two schemes are working to restore river estuaries that have, over time, been changed in order to reclaim land. The land […]
From Water Briefing The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, as it sets out its roadmap to hit net zero as an organisation by 2030. More than half of the EA’s carbon emissions currently come from the […]