This month t look at the new Flood Re insurance scheme with an introduction from Flood Re CEO, Brendan McCafferty, along with some of your views on the very live issue of insurance. The problem faced by small businesses in finding affordable insurance was raised at this week’s Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs), with David Cameron… Read more »
Helping to reduce flood risk in Southwell – a developer’s view
The old Rainbow freight yard at the Burgage, Southwell provides a very good example of the opportunities presented by the redevelopment of previously-used sites in helping to tackle local flood risks. Built before modern planning laws came into place, all the hard-surfaces within this former industrial site added to the load on local drainage infrastructure,… Read more »
The Life Scientific (Radio 4) – Carolyn Roberts – 22.3.16 on “problem solving in watery places”
Barely a month goes by without news of another catastrophic flood somewhere in the world, like the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 or the flooding of New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina a year later, and the role of climate change is often mooted. Here in the UK this winter, flood victims were once again caught… Read more »
DEFRA and DECC publish their departmental plans 2015-2020
The Defra 2015-2020 plan Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publishes its departmental plan for 2015-2020, outlining priority areas in flooding, air pollution and wildlife diversity The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released its five-year plan for delivering a cleaner, healthier environment while encouraging growth and prosperity in the UK’s… Read more »
Natural Flood Management – a ’round-up’ of links
Flooding: government inquiry into a joined up approach, slowing flood water, redirecting farming subsidies, living with nature and rewilding … and planting a few trees Read more Institute of Civil Engineering report on “Slowing the Flow in Pickering” Read here
Fruit farmer Suzannah Starkey of Starkey’s Fruit in Southwell looks at the impact of rain and muddy soil on crops
Suzannah Starkey’s article in Nottingham Post We need to consider how better to cope with excess water, whatever the cause, by cleaning ditches, digging out channels and draining surface water into lagoons because it is filtering too slowly to the subsoils, to the detriment of the crop. Read more: http://www.nottinghampost.com/Suzannah-Starkey-rain-mud/story-28618593-detail/story.html#ixzz429bikJOu
National Flood Resilience Review: Government action to tackle floods
The government confirmed the terms of reference for the National Flood Resilience Review, which will be chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin. Established in December 2015 following Storm Desmond, the Review will assess how the country can be better protected from future flooding and increasingly extreme weather events. It will… Read more »
Natural Flood Management – EA posts
‘Energy Crops and Floodplain Flows’ ‘Long Term Land Use Changes and Flood Risk’:
Farmers, the public, wildlife and dredging – collection of articles
One of the emerging themes of the Northern floods is how farmers and dredging debate has once again taken off. Environment Minister addresses the Oxford Farming Conference Liz Truss is choosing to protect farmers over flood victims Farmers and conservationists split over river dredging plans – Farmers Weekly
‘Flood Resilient Communities: Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder’
Here’s a summary by Peter Coombs Vice President Business Development, EMEA of the CIWEM conference on ‘Flood Resilient Communities: Evaluating the Defra Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder’. He found the conference invaluable with many positive outcomes but he wonders why so many communities have been allowed to be exposed to such risks. “Historical developments along watercourses… Read more »
