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). Natural Flood Management (NFM) by ‘green’ porous reservoirs demands multiple intermittent engineered features at strategic locations to achieve significant cumulative effect without lateral impact
- “RAF‘s” and “SUDS” ? More . . .
- Strategic Locations. More . . .
- Incremental Attenuation for cumulative effect More . . .
- Multiple Benefits: More . . .
Select Committee chair Anne McIntosh (MP Thirsk/Malton) seemed a tad uncertain of the science of NFM. Yet natural processes do deliver (more . . .). For sure, uncertainty is a problem, but so is hesitation for vulnerable communities.
Multiple Benefits of High Friction Floodplains 