Monthly Archives: January 2012
Green Reservoirs
The concept of ‘green’ flood storage featured in both technical presentations at the POST Seminar (House of Commons 17th January 2012). It would seem to be a key message to the Select Committee. Green solutions are also a theme of CIWEM 2012 (20Mar12). … Continue reading
The Parliamentary Reply . .
. . . from Select Committee Chair, Anne McIntosh MP, Member for Thirsk . . . . . . (to the question posed below at this week’s POST UK seminar) could perhaps best be described as a cautious, maternal, albeit slightly negative “We’ll … Continue reading
A Parliamentary Question . .
re: Equitable Funding of Natural Flood Defence within Water Supply Does Parliament see a role for the Private Water industry in the funding of sustainable flood defence along rivers which provide essential conveyance of water managed, primarily, for urban users … Continue reading
Select Committee Seminar
UK Parliamentary Seminar, 17th January 2012: P.O.S.T. Briefing A meeting to review Natural Flood Management (defined by P.O.S.T. as the alteration, restoration or use of landscape features) systems, and to inform parliamentarians of this novel way to reduce flood risk. The … Continue reading
‘Natural’ Ecosystem Attenuation in Action
Upper Severn Overbank Flow shows promise. A routine overbank flood (c. 2-3yr RP) occurred on Wednesday 4th January in the Upper Severn reaches. Whilst unremarkable in itself and some 500mm below the critical stage of local embankments, the EA newly … Continue reading
Multiple Benefits of High Friction Floodplains 