The Environment Agency has said that flood protection has been restored to 115,000 homes with 350 damaged flood risk management assets already repaired following winter flood and storm damage.
Over 100 Environment Agency flood risk management specialist inspectors aided by around 200 members of the armed forces have this month completed an assessment of over 150,000 flood risk management assets across the country. The inspections took six weeks to complete.
Following the extraordinary combination of severe weather and flooding since early December 2013, the Environment Agency called in assistance from military personnel to help in visually inspecting and recording the condition of England’s flood assets.
A further 650 flood risk assets have repairs planned or underway, to restore protection to a further 180,000 properties.
Dr Paul Leinster, Environment Agency Chief Executive, said that the completed inspections meant the Agency now had a full picture of the condition of all the flood risk management assets across the country and had prioritised the most urgent repairs.
Flooding Minister, Dan Rogerson, commented:
“Our flood defences took a battering over the winter but we are getting on with the job of repairing them. We want to see our flood defences back up to full working conditions which is why we have provided the Environment Agency with an additional £270 million to fix and maintain them over the next two years.”
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