Materiały konferencyjne SEP 2024

Flood Risk Management  Always a place for traditional engineered flood alleviation schemes and it is an essential part of flood defence  Major schemes still funded by the UK government  “We need our land, upstream of flood risk areas, to hold on to rainwater for longer and release it more gradually into our rivers to reduce peak flows during storm events.” Joe Pimlett, CEO of the Severn Rivers Trust, The Guardian, Jan 2024  National acknowledgement that we need to work with natural processes to reduce flooding, i.e. natural flood management (NFM)