Leatherhead Flood Recovery Meeting Mark Douch: Flood & Coastal - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Leatherhead Flood Recovery Meeting

• Mark Douch: Flood & Coastal Risk Manager
• Sarah Smith: Partnerships and Strategic

Overview Team Leader

• Tim Norton: Flood Resilience Team Leader

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Christmas & New year Floods

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Both tidal and fluvial risks Approximately 19,800 flood warnings and updates were issued nationally Christmas: 80,000 properties protected 1,400 properties flooded New Year: Additional 100,000 properties protected Additional 300 properties flooded

Flood risk in Leatherhead

Rainfall

• Catchments saturated at the beginning of the month
• 21-22 December: 20mm across the whole Mole catchment
• 23-24 December: 50-75mm
• Five day total: 107mm (Burstow)

River Response: December to January

River Response: 15 December to 1 January

River Response Christmas

Groundwater levels

Flood Warning Codes

• Stay alert
• Stay vigilant
• Early precautions
• Flooding expected
• Take action
• Protect yourselves &

your property

• Significant risk to life
• Significant disruption

to communities

• Protect yourselves

Flood Warning

Issued 0809, 24 December 2013 Issued 1410, 24 December 2013

Lower Mole Scheme

River Mole Long Profile

What are we doing?

Improved process for issuing Flood Warnings Bidding for funding for Middle Mole Strategic Options Review – accelerated Flood forecasting Support community resilience – Flood Action Group?

What can you do? Community Actions

• Register for Flood Warnings
• Make a flood plan
• Restore property in a resilient manner
• Consider property protection products
• Flood Action Group/Flood Wardens
• Riparian landowners

Contact details

Phone: 03708 506 506 Email: KSLEnquiries@environment- agency.gov.uk Address: Environment Agency, Orchard House, Endeavour Park, London Road, West Malling, Kent, ME19 5SH