The Environment Agency (EA) has begun carrying out a four-month period of surveys and investigation works to support the the multi-million pound Kendal Flood Risk Management scheme.
The EA is continuing to develop Phase 1 of the Kendal flood risk management scheme and need to carry out survey and investigation works in the area to help shape the design.
The surveys will include:
- visual inspections of existing manholes and river walls
- surface surveys
- trial pits to identify the location of foundations and underground services • surveys to detect tree roots and building structures
Structural surveys will also be undertaken for some riverside walls and properties to identify how they have been built. Surveyors will attend the property and visually inspect both internal and external parts of the building, to allow the Agency to better understand the construction.
For existing river walls, EA surveyors will undertake the survey along the river Kent throughout Kendal.
The Kendal flood risk management scheme is receiving £5.34 million of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.
In August 2019 VolkerStevin, alongside joint venture partners Boskalis Westminster and Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, were awarded a contracts for the work as part of the Environment Agency’s Water and Environment Management (WEM) £1 billion Framework to reduce flooding across the UK.
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