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Community safety
Flooding in Adur
Several
areas of the Adur district may be at risk from flooding under certain
weather and tide conditions. To help you prepare for and cope with flooding
the Environment Agency's website contains a wealth of detailed information
about: Flood maps; Preparing for a flood; Flooding knowledge; What to do
during a flood; and What to do after a flood.
The Environment Agency have produced a range of useful leaflets which give prcatical advice on what to do before, during and after a flood. They include :
- Flooding - preparing for a flood
- Flooding - during a flood
- Flooding - recovering from a flood
- See Environment Agency website - Flood advice guides (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/826674/882909/483622/?version=1&lang=_e)
You
can visit the following useful page on the Environment Agency's website :
- Environment
Agency website : for flood warnings if any come into place (updated every
15 minutes) (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/floodwarning/)
or phone their Floodline : 0845 988 1188 
Environment
Agency Floodline pages (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/826674/)- Flood - what you need to know pages (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood)
- and Environment Agency Floodmaps (type in your postcode) (http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/eff/1190084/natural_forces/flooding/?lang=_e)
- See also the Environment Agency website for more flood advice (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/826674/830330/?version=1&lang=_e)
- or just go to their homepage www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Environmental data : Also, their 'What's in Your Backyard?' (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/maps) website allows you to explore environmental data from the national level right down to your local environment. Once on their website follow the 'Find Your Environment' link, then type in your postcode and you will see what environmental data (and/or problems) may exist in your neighbourhood - it also has maps showing areas at risk from flooding.
Other useful links on Adur District Council's website :
- Weather and tide links page
- Advice in case of flooding
booklet (.PDF 21kb)
(it is best to print this out and re-assemble as an A5 booklet before reading) - Flood and Coastal Defence
policy
- Flood bags
- Sandbags and sandbag protocol - see the sandbags
section on the flood bags page
- Flood trials in Adur, August 2007
- Severe weather seminar, November 2007 (below)
Other useful external websites :
- BBC weather warnings page (www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/warnings.shtml) (see also the BBC flood codes page : www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/flooding.shtml)
- Homecheck website (www.homecheck.co.uk) : A guide to flooding, subsidence, pollution, landfill sites, schools and crime rates in your neighbourhood.
- Met Office website (www.metoffice.gov.uk)
- West Sussex County Council website (www.westsussex.gov.uk)
- South Downs Coastal Group website (www.sdcg.org.uk)
Flood trials in Adur, August 2007
This has moved to the flood-bags page
Severe weather seminar, November 2007
The Sussex Resilience Forum (SRF) sponsored a severe weather seminar at the Corn Exchange, Brighton, on the 20th November 2007 entitled "A months rain falls in Sussex in one day - How would we cope should it happen here?"
The event was organised by Brighton & Hove City Council (Business Continuity) working in co-operation with Adur District Council (Corporate and Public Safety) and was supported by a number of exhibitors within and outside the Corn Exchange.
Presentations by the Chief Executive of Hull City Council and the Assistant Chief Constable of Gloucester Constabulary gave a first hand account from those who experienced flooding this year, together with a strategic view of how to respond and the hidden impacts of such an event. Additional presentations during the afternoon session gave emphasis to Sussex and how we would cope with such an event.
The presentations have been included below for you to see. Please note that these have been converted from PowerPoint presentations to PDF prints to reduce their file sizes as much as possible, but some of them still remain large files to download or open and may take a while on a slow internet connection.
In the morning there were presentations from those who experienced flooding this year, and they gave a strategic view of how to respond and the hidden impacts of such an event :
- Sarah
Davies, Meteorological Office
Severe Weather Warnings (.PDF 1mb - large file) - Kim
Ryley, Chief Executive of Hull City Council
Flooding in Hull 2007 (.PDF 1.76mb - large file) - Steve
Ackland, Assistant Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Police
Flooding in Gloucestershire 2007 (.PDF 6.5mb - large file)
Lunchtime :
In the afternoon the seminar looked at the threats and risks to Sussex with the views of local experts :
- Heather
Buttivant, Climate Change South-East
The effect of climate change on severe weather, what to plan for (.PDF 668kb) - David
Renville, Environment Agency
Coastal and River flooding in Sussex (.PDF 7.5mb - large file) - Jim
Thomas, Southern Water
Surface water and sewerage flooding (.PDF 800kb) - Mark
Prior, Brighton and Hove City Council
Highways and land flooding (.PDF 2.3mb - large file) - Ian
Sadler FCII, Ansvar Insurance
The insurance prespective (.PDF 199kb)
