The EA ‘The Environment Agency and its partners are holding three targeted Rethinking Water Citizens’ Juries to discuss the important question: How do you connect with water in your local environment, and what needs to be changed in the future to benefit people and wildlife? This is about involving communities in decisions about the future […]
EA New advice for farmers – Green crops & Cambridge Successful cover crops scheme expanded Cambridge and Affinity Water are pleased to announce that our novel cover crops scheme has been a success again this year. The joint initiative, launched last summer, captured 40 tonnes of nitrogen over 800 hectares which may otherwise have leached […]
Fish Legal and Angling Trust drag Defra and EA back to High Court Angling Trust, Fish Legal & WWF ‘With state of our rivers very much in the public eye since lockdown began and cuts to environmental watchdogs, Fish Legal, Angling Trust and its partner WWF have gone back to court because the Department of […]
Defra & EA – Update to the RBMPs The Environment Agency must review and update RBMPs every 6 years. Their review and update of the current RBMPs is underway. They expect the consultation on the draft RBMPs to start in 2021. The Environment Agency has concluded that the requirement for a strategic environmental assessment for the third cycle review of the river […]
EA New reports 1. Flood and coastal erosion risk management research and development framework: working with communities This project developed a framework to determine the priorities for future research on how to work with communities to manage the risks associated with flooding and coastal erosion. 2. Review of groundwater flood risk management in England This […]
EA ‘The Environment Agency has published the Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data for 2020, which tracks the operation of storm overflows. This data has always been available by information request, but following the commitment made by the Storm Overflows Taskforce to increase the transparency and accessibility of this data, it’s now available on GOV.UK. This year […]
The Rivers Trusts ‘Data released today by the Environment Agency (EA) shows that storm overflows (SOs) discharged untreated sewage and storm water more than 400,000 times, and for more than 3 million hours during 2020 in England. This is a shocking volume of untreated contaminated wastewater reaching our rivers and shows that our current approach […]
Climate crisis hits ‘worst case scenario’ levels – Environment Agency head Sir James Bevan says extreme flooding in UK indicates urgent need for change if humanity is to survive The climate emergency is already hitting “worst case scenario” levels that if left unchecked will lead to the collapse of ecosystems, with dire consequences for humanity, […]