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OTLEY’S flood defence scheme has been completed - dramatically cutting the risk to properties near the bridge.

The Environment Agency is looking for new members to join the North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC). The RFCC has a key role in helping to implement the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy and is currently looking for people with expertise in spatial development and planning; climate resilient public spaces and buildings; economics (including valuing environmental and wider society benefits); and the water industry. Adrian Lythgo, chairman of the North West RFCC, said: “We all know how seriously floods affect people and communities. We have to ...

CONSTRUCTION on a scheme to better protect Otley residents from flooding started this week. The scheme, which is part of the response against the climate emergency, will reduce flood risk to 53 properties in the area around Wharfemeadows Park. Led by Leeds City Council in partnership with the Environment Agency, WSP and BAM Nuttall Mott McDonald (BMMjv), the scheme comprises of an embankment running parallel to Billams Hill and vegetation management on the islands downstream on Otley weir. Together, the measures will reduce the likelihood of flooding from the River Wharfe to a 4 perce...

River levels have risen rapidly and to places they've never been before. over the weekend, missouri experienced widespread and deadly flash flooding. just this morning, we were informed of three more floo flood-related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 13. now that the rain has moved out, the threat has changed but it is not by any means over. especially for communities along the rising mississippi river and its tributaries here in the st. louis regions. water levels are predicted to exceed the crest of 1993, which caused significant and widespread devastation. i've just come up f...

It's a show you don't want to miss. now to an extreme mweather alert. isaac may have grew to a tropical storm but problems are growing fast. jonathan siere is live on the ground. >> webbings peer yens rain and anticipate we will for moist of the rest of the day as we have the outer bands of the back half of this storm pass over louisiana. as this rain continues to fall over a wide region with the slow moving storm people living far inland could experience flooding if there is low lying areas. near the coast the storm surge has been the problem during advance of the storm. plaquemines parish ...