Completion of a 10-year programme of work in Leeds this autumn has delivered 1 in 200-year flood protection for the city and some engineering firsts for the UK too.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has taken enforcement action against works which negatively impacted flood protection features.
The Environment Agency has begun work on its new £10.6M flood risk management scheme to better protect homes and businesses in Stoke-on-Trent town centre.
This video is from NCE's Flood Resilience Forum 2023 held on 19 April 2023. WSP associate flood risk engineers Tom Fitzpatrick and Matt Wiltshire discuss how public engagement helped shape the preferred option for the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme. The project will hope to will improve flood risk to…
Network Rail has begun a £3.5M programme to improve the heavy rain resilience of the railway between the North Lanarkshire villages of Croy and Dullatur.
Rewind to the summer of 2007: extreme rainfall in late June and late July led to severe flooding from the Home Counties to Yorkshire and across from the Midlands to South Wales. In all, 55,000 homes and businesses were flooded. Since then, things have changed. The Environment Agency has been…
An independent review of flooding events across Wales during the winter of 2020-21 has been launched, the Welsh Government has announced.
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