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Community safety
Flooding in Adur
Flood bags (FloodSax®)
Several areas of the Adur district may be at risk from flooding under certain weather and tide conditions. Adur Council is offering residents and local businesses a chance to buy new technology FloodSax® to help them protect their homes in a flood emergency. Over one quarter of the district is at risk of flooding. Floods cause devastating damage to people's lives and homes as seen so often in the news.
The council has tried and tested the FloodSax® and has invested in some to protect its own property and deal with flooding emergencies. They can be stored and packed away and brought out should disaster strike. When they are immersed in water they inflate and act as a barrier to prevent water entering buildings.
To buy the bags at £60 for 10 bags please fill out the form below :
- FloodSax® order form to type into or hand write (.DOC 44kb) - please use this form if possible
- FloodSax® order form to hand write only (.DOC 19kb) - only use this form if you don't have access to MS Word
Please return the form to :
- Adur District Council,
Cash Office,
Civic Centre, Ham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea,
West Sussex, BN43 6PR
Collection of flood bags : It is intend that collection of the FloodSax® flood bags will be from the Adur Civic Centre on Friday afternoons on production of receipt from cash office.
For more information about the bags please contact :
- John Rodway, Corporate and Public Safety Manager on 01273 263064
- or send the Corporate and Public Safety Unit an e-mail
See also :
- FloodSax® user guide (.PDF 158kb)
- FloodSax® website (www.edslimited.co.uk/Products/FloodSax)
Flood trials in Adur, August 2007
A report in relation to trials of new technology flood bags that took place on 14th August 2007 in Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex.
- Flood trials report (.PDF 538kb)
- FloodSax® trials in Adur - FloodSax® website (www.edslimited.co.uk/News/2008/2/Adur-District-Council-Flood-Trials-Report)
Sandbags
- Sandbag protocol (includes list of suppliers) (.PDF 27kb)
See also
- Useful links to external websites which give links to: flood alerts;
how to prepare for, and clear up after, flooding; and other flood related
advice - these are all available on our main flooding
webpage
- Severe weather seminar, November 2007
