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The UK’s Flood Hydrology Roadmap is designed to safeguard communities, infrastructure, and natural environments from the escalating risks of flooding.
Sustainable flood memory emphasises the importance of remembering and learning from past flood events to enhance community resilience and adaptive strategies.
Flooding is a growing environmental threat across the UK, but not all communities experience its impacts equally.
The Levee Safety Partnership brings together experts from 3 countries to focus on emerging challenges and opportunities in flood defence infrastructure assets.
Research provided vital information for planners, developers, and flood risk management authorities to prepare for future flooding scenarios.
This research was applied to give the government, flood risk management authorities and the insurance industry a better understanding of risk.
Research supported authorities to work with communities when planning to reduce flood and coastal erosion risks.
Flood forecasting with the open-source flood modelling tool High-Performance Integrated Hydrodynamic Modelling System (HiPIMS)
Evidence base on natural flood management is supporting investment decisions and informing which measures to use.
Including the impact of floods on people’s mental health for the first time.
Using the Coastal Modelling Environment tool to change how the UK manages coastal risks.
The environmental permit sets out strict conditions on operation of the proposed inert landfill site at Lower Hare Farm
Devon and Cornwall is leading the way in innovative water sources as the West Country’s industrial legacy is turned into gigantic water holes.
Schemes supported as part of record £2.65 billion two-year investment to protect communities from flooding
Additional funding for internal drainage boards (IDBs) to boost farm and rural flood resilience, bringing total IDB Fund to £91 million
New regulations requiring businesses to separate recycling from waste come into effect
A new project to install three floating islands in the River Tees Estuary is complete, creating new habitat and bringing a boost for wildlife.
Spill count and duration remains unacceptably high across England. Data analysis and stricter rules to reduce pollution going forward.
The Environment Agency’s Fisheries Enforcement Officers have started patrols along the coast to help protect the endangered European eel from illegal poaching.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Solihull man who failed to remove waste from his land.
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