The Environment Agency released its flood hydrology roadmap, which can be used to predict and reduce flooding across the country over the next 25-years.
The roadmap, which includes the views of more then 100 experts from over 50 organizations, will improve hydrological data and models which can be used for flood risk adaptation from rivers, groundwater and reservoirs.
These models will continue to underpin flood risk management over the next decades, with benefits for areas such:
- Design and maintenance flood defenses
- Assessment and mapping of flood risk at the national and local levels
- The operation and design of flood warning and forecasting schemes
- Design and operation for sustainable drainage systems
- Understanding the future flood risk from climate change
The Environment Agency will also be able to better understand the impact climate change has on flood risk. It will also support modeling of past and future impacts of climate change.
Sean Longfield, Environment Agency lead scientist for flood and coastal risk management research, said: This roadmap gives us a fantastic opportunity and will be an invaluable tool in helping to understand future flood risk.
The Environment Agency is working hard in order to ensure that the recommendations from the roadmap are implemented so that we can develop the next generation flood hydrology knowledge, models, and systems that will underpin flood management for decades to follow.
The roadmap will cover England, Wales and Scotland from 2021 to 2046. The Flood Hydrology Roadmap Governance Board is responsible for ensuring that the roadmap is followed.
This comes as the government’s investment in flooding has doubled, to a record 5.2bn between 2020-2127. It created around 2,000 flood and coastal defenses to better protect hundreds upon thousands of properties across England.
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