SLIDE 1 Benacre & Kessingland Flood Risk Management Project
Karen Thomas
Project Manager Water Management Alliance On behalf of Waveney, Lower Yare and Lothingland Internal Drainage Board
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Courtesy of Mike Page
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2016
SLIDE 6 Courtesy of Mike Page and Benacre Estates
2017
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Breach Risk to Kessingland Levels
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Alternative Flood Risk Management Options
SLIDE 9 What’s at Tidal Risk?
Circa 44 Homes Commercial businesses 600 acres + Agriculture Abstraction Tourism Recreation and Access Transport links (A12) Utilities (water, electric) Landscape Wildlife
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SOUTH AREA 08/01/2019
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SOUTH AREA 08/01/2019
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NORTH AREA 08/01/2019
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NORTH AREA 08/01/2019
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Fluvial Flood Risk
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Surface water fl flooding in Kessingland
SLIDE 16 Preferred alignments of potential new defences
Benacre flood defence options
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Parkdean Resorts Alignment Options
SLIDE 18 Benacre Estates- Lothingland Valley set-back
SLIDE 19 Economics studies
- Wider economic study from Mott
MacDonalds
- Identifies £130M of wider economic
benefits arising from an adaptive approach
- SCC Highways report estimated present
value losses (PV Losses), accrued over a 50 years (2018 –2068), are £253,717,000 for the Do Nothing plus climate change scenario.
- Both reports will feed into economic
appraisal in OBC
- Form basis of wider partnership funding
ask for a scheme
SLIDE 20 Stakeholder Engagement
- Partnership approach
- Project Board supported by local
Councillors and MP Peter Aldous
- Multi-agency project team
- Local leadership from Kessingland
Parish Council
- 150 stakeholders attended initial
drop-in Nov 2017
- Autumn 2019- update on latest
information and likely preferred
- ptions
- Spring 2020- final rounds of
engagement and OBC submission
SLIDE 21 Recent progress
From October 2018
- RFCC decision on Levy funding
- WMA & Jacobs programme for 18 months OBC
- Includes Parkdean Resorts costed options in the appraisal
- Developing our stakeholder engagement approach and share evidence
- Identify potential funding routes (funding framework) for the capital scheme
including private elements
- Technical work to be developed over next 12 months- coastal change, ground
conditions, outline designs for defences and pump capacity
- Develop a preferred option and engage local people Autumn 2019 and Spring 2020
- Submit Business Case June 2020
SLIDE 22 Opportunities & challenges
- Outside of the FDGIA Business
Case- the project aims to deliver wider benefits and attract broader funding streams
- Opportunities for landscape scale
adaptation
- Freshwater capture and storage for
habitat enhancement and agriculture
- Fisheries, tourism and access can
be enhanced
- Need to attract investors
- £10-15M scheme
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