As the post-flood clear-up continues, we’re exploring ways in which farmers may be able to help prevent future flooding, by keeping water upstream. In this programme we hear about a gigantic sock which can help hold water back, and keep it upstream in farmers’ fields. Programme no longer available
Discussion on floods – Radio 5 Live – Thursday 7th January 2016 – features Jillian Labadz of NTU Brackenhurst
Peter Allen holding a discussion of the floods on Radio 5 Live, with an audience and panel including Government Floods Envoy Robert Goodwill MP (on the telephone, he was not in the room with the audience) York and Leeds City Council leaders (Judith Blake and Chris Steward) Shadow Floods Minister Alex Cunningham MP Architect Robert… Read more »
Pickering’s natural flood management scheme works
How a town in Yorkshire worked with nature to stay dry One notorious Yorkshire flood blackspot was celebrating staying dry – despite having been refused a multimillion pound defence scheme. They built 167 leaky dams of logs and branches – which let normal flows through but restrict and slow down high ones – in the… Read more »
Today programme on Radio 4 – interview with Jillian Labadz
Jillian Labadz of Nottingham Trent University talks on flood mitigation – 28th December 2015
CIWEM/National Flood Forum Conference 2015
Tim Farr (Chair), Jacky Huson, James Parker, Jillian Labadz (Nottingham Trent University lecturer) and Josh Wells (NTU PhD student) attended the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)/NFF conference this year on December 2nd in London at the hastily rearranged venue of Cavendish Conference Centre. The conference was attended by around 150 people drawn… Read more »
Dr Jillian Labadz interview on Radio Nottingham
Dr Jillian Labadz, lecturer at Nottingham Trent University talks about the flooding in Cumbria, the impact on a community, what can be done and how Flood Forums, such as ours in Southwell can greatly contribute towards managing flood risk, help a community be prepared and recover from flooding. Listen to her interview with Richard Allen… Read more »
