About 100 people attended the very interesting and enlightening talk which generated many questions and concerns. Jillian stressed Josh’s project is purely about using land at Brackenhurst at the moment and that engineered mitigation is still being planned by Nottinghamshire County Council with Government Grant-in-Aid funding. A scheme to hold back water in Springfield Dumble… Read more »
Natural Flood Management – Guardian January 2016
The UK doesn’t yet have much experience of using natural landscape absorption methods. Working with nature to hold back floodwater – by measures like planting trees or renaturalising landscapes to store or absorb more water – is an attractive idea we all hope may be part of a future solution. But with something as important… Read more »
Natural Flood Management at Brackenhurst – project design
A comprehensive Wells and Labadz 2016 Report to the SFF-Natural Flood Management on Brackenhurst Land on the work on NFM on Brackenhurst land as part of the PhD research by Josh Wells. It also gives some preliminary hydrographs from storm Angus and some images captured shortly after with the drone.
“Slowing the Flow” – a talk on Southwell’s first natural flood management project to help reduce flood risk in the town- 2nd February 2017
The first project to help reduce flooding in the town has been completed by Josh Wells, a PhD student at NTU Brackenhurst who is working with hydrologist Dr Jillian Labadz and the Environment Agency, together with Stuart Smith (Smith JCB Hire of Southwell) who has dug long and hard in difficult circumstances to complete the… Read more »
Natural measures must be key to UK flood protection, MPs urge
2nd November 2016 Report also criticises government’s plans and funding and calls for Environment Agency to be stripped of responsibility for flooding Natural ways of stopping floods, such as tree planting and putting logs in rivers to slow water flow must be a key part of protecting the nation as climate change intensifies rain storms,… Read more »
Natural Flood Management Scheme at Brackenhurst
Work at Brackenhurst started on woody debris dams in June 2016 and bunds in November 2016. Pictures below Before (July) and after (22nd November 2016) drone shots of Brackenhurst’s #naturalfloodmanagement scheme, still under construction but holding back water as designed See January 2017 report Picture below One of the storage bunds doing its… Read more »
National Flood Forum Bulletin – November 2016
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee’s report, Future Flood Prevention, recently recommended a complete overhaul of how we tackle flooding. Amongst the recommendations was that we should take a more holistic approach to managing flood risk, including incorporating natural flood management (NFM) into the toolkit. NFM is about how we delay and… Read more »
Government commits £15m to natural flood management
Friday 25 November 2016 Natural management is ‘vital’ as well as other flood defences says environment secretary The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend £15m on natural flood management projects, the environment secretary has announced. On Thursday, Andrea Leadsom confirmed to parliament that, although flood defences such as concrete barriers are… Read more »
Southwell could gain £350,000 for flood work
A grant of £350,000 could be given to Southwell over the next three years towards work to reduce the risk of flooding. Nottinghamshire County Council has applied for the money from the Trent Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. It was approved in principle by the finance sub-committee and will now go to the main Trent… Read more »
Flood Expo 2016
A free exhibition and conference with leading speakers Excel London, October 12th and 13th Apply for your free ticket(s) here
