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Flood work boosts protection to 450 Selby homes |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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Residents in Ryther and Cawood, near Selby will benefit from stronger flood defences when the Environment Agency carries out a £750,000 improvements scheme this summer.
The existing defences currently protect 450 homes. Routine inspection of the structures found that some sections needed repairs. In both locations the existing walls will be removed and replaced with brick walls strengthened internally by 10 metre-long sheet piles.
Environment Agency project manager Adrian Millward said:
“The defences at Ryther and Cawood are quite old, so when our inspections showed that they needed repairs we started to investigate ways of strengthening them. The work should take around two months and hopefully the defences will help to protect the villages for many more decades to come.”
The work is due to start in early August and finish by the end of October. Once construction work has finished, the sites will be landscaped and trees planted to help the areas recover.
Environment Agency staff will also be walking Yorkshire’s flood banks and defences this summer to check for any signs of deterioration. The frequency of the inspections depend on how critical the bank is to protecting people and property. The most critical are inspected around twice a year. Staff look for any damage such as structural cracks, soil erosion or rabbit and mole holes which can undermine the structure and cause it to fail.
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