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 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 »
Presentation on Flooding in Southwell and PhD project
Labadz Wells et al 2016 extreme event and NFM project Southwell View the presentation given by Dr Jillian Labadz and Josh Wells (PhD student) of Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst campus at the British Hydrological Society on 15th June 2016
Natural Flood Management project at Brackenhurst
Funding for natural flood management at Brackenhurst Read about the submission to request £2K from the Southwell Flood Fund held by Nottinghamshire Community Foundation.
Community Resilience Day – a resounding success
We thank everyone who attended – from youngsters who enjoyed exploring the emergency vehicles… to residents who found out more about resilience….to other Nottinghamshire communities who enjoyed the opportunity to share experiences….to our guests …. to Wardens who completed, refreshed or were trained in the required elements to carry out their role as a Road… Read more »
Community Resilience Day – 15th May – everyone welcome
“Supporting a Resilient Southwell” event will take place between 10:30 and 16:00 on Sunday 15th May 2016 at Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst campus See information about the talks, speakers and training sessions here This day will be of interest for everyone, not only those at risk at flooding, but for all who could be… 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 »
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
