At last year's meeting, a proposed plan of action included
surface water management plans, increasing the size of culverts, exploring additional storage capacity at St Joseph's Court, exploring extending the earth mound at Plantation Road, reviewing drainage and gulley cleansing programmes and working with large landowners to investigate drainage on their land.
Outlining the Government' response to Sir Michael Pitt's review of the floods, Mr Benn announced a pounds 15m fund for local authorities, including money for six high-risk councils to develop surface water management plans.
Part of this will be for the development of surface water management plans."
Outlining the Government' response to Sir Michael Pitt's review of the floods, Mr Benn announced a pounds 15 million fund for six high-risk councils to develop
surface water management plans.
A PS100,000 Environment Agency grant has been secured to help develop the
surface water management plans, the meeting heard.
The report says the council has received a PS100,000 Environment Agency grant "to initiate flood risk management" and develop
surface water management plans - effectively, schemes to hold surface water back from reaching drainage systems until the extreme weather has subsided.
A plan of action was outlined to avoid similar problems in the future including developing hydraulic models to understand implications of extreme weather,
surface water management plans, increasing the culvert size, exploring additional storage capacity at St Joseph's Court, exploring extending the earth mound at Plantation Road, reviewing drainage and gulley cleansing programmes and working with large landowners to investigate drainage on their land.