Northumbrian Water plans innovative solution to flooding
Northumbrian Water is holding an event today to enable people in Cramlington to find out more about proposals to create a novel solution to help prevent flooding in the Megstone Avenue area of the town.
Government to make £100m of new money available for floods
The Government is to make an additional £100 million of new money available to help with the current floods.
Southern Water spends extra £70k a day to protect sewers from flooding
The extra cost of keeping Southern Water’s sewers working, as the South East experiences the worst series of storms in over 10 years, is running at more than £70,000 a day.
Welsh Assembly provides additional £2m for flood repairs
Welsh Assembly Minister for Natural Resources and Food, Alun Davies has announced an additional £2m to fund emergency repairs to flood defences that were damaged in the recent storms.
Government advisers warned over two years ago that not enough being done to address flood risk
The Government’s own independent advisers have said that not enough is being done to address flood risk - repeating warnings that they made over two years ago.
Network Rail uses coastal forecasting to protect assets from flood risk
The coastal floods of December 2013 caused significant damage to railway assets in North Wales, including more than 200m of the Mostyn sea wall which required emergency repair work by Network Rail.
South Downs take action against flooding and soil erosion
A new schems will see 600 native trees planted on farmland in the South Downs National Park to help prevent a repeat of recent disastrous flooding and soil erosion in the National Park.
Environment Agency chief says UK faces difficult choices on flood defence investment
Lord Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency says that the UK now faces difficult choices on flood defence investment.
Met Office –record wet January weather for Southern England since records began
Early statistics published by the Met Office for January 2014 show that the southeast and central southern England region has already had its wettest January in records going back to 1910, with three days still to go.
National Grid flood defence spend highlights need to protect UK critical infrastructure
National Grid’s latest Interim Management Statement published today says that its recent investment in flood defences in the UK has minimised the impact of recent bad weather - once again highlighting the need for the UK to protect its critical national infrastructure.
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