The Lower Mole Flood Alleviation Scheme ('the Scheme') is reaching the end of its designed life. It needs refurbishing to maintain the standard of flood protection and to ensure it’s the best possible scheme for the environment, people and wildlife.
Project update - July 2019
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The St. Austell Bay Resilient Regeneration (STARR) project aims to reduce flood risk to over 800 homes and businesses in Par and St. Blazey.
The scheme will bring additional benefits to the area by encouraging investment and making the area a better place to work, live and play.
We are...More
Welcome to the Humber2100+ Information Page
Here you will find the latest information on the development of the new Humber Strategy and how you can get involved.
You can find out more about flood risk on the Humber and what we are doing to manage it by visiting our exciting new ...More
This page focuses on proposed work in the Clifton and Rawcliffe flood cell.
The Clifton and Rawcliffe flood cell is highlighted in pink.
Our Assessment
Flooding is not a new occurrence in Clifton and Rawcliffe. Both neighbourhoods have been subjected to...More
We have created this page to provide easy access to information on the move of abstraction and impoundment licensing into the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) regime. We will be adding more documents onto this site so please keep checking back for what’s new.
At present,...More
This page provides information on the flood cells on the River Foss and its tributaries:
The Lower Foss
The Groves to Haley's Terrace
Haley's Terrace to the Link Road
The Link Road to Strensall
Westfield Beck ...More
This page provides information about the following flood cells:
Clementhorpe
Foss Confluence to Fulford
Germany Beck
The Clementhorpe Flood Cell
You can find our most recent updates by following the links below:
L atest newsletter
Presentation from the...More
This page provides information on the the following flood cells:
Coppins Farm to Scarborough Bridge
Scarborough Bridge to Ouse Bridge (left bank )
Coppins Farm to Scarborough Bridge
Latest newsletter
Summary of public drop-in (12 July)
The Coppins Farm...More
This page focuses on the following three flood cells located along the River Ouse:
Scarborough Bridge to Ouse Bridge Right Bank
Queen's Staith and Skeldergate
King's Staith
The Scarborough Bridge to Ouse Bridge (right bank) Flood Cell
Latest newsletter
This...More
The purpose of this page is to provide information on the following flood cells:
Bishopthorpe
Naburn
Acaster Malbis
The Bishopthorpe Flood Cell
Bishopthorpe is located south of the York outer ring road on the right bank of the River Ouse. Major flooding has...More
The rivers Ouse and Foss flowing through York have been instrumental in the city’s success, providing first a defensive role for the Roman settlers, then an artery for trade and industrial growth as the city expanded. Our relationship with the rivers has not been without problems. Throughout...More
The purpose of this page is to provide information on how upgrades to the Foss Barrier in York are progressing.
On Boxing Day 2015 the city of York experienced exceptional flooding, affecting over 600 homes and businesses across the city. The volume of water in the Foss catchment was...More
Water is a precious resource that we can’t live without; from supplying drinking water and supporting fisheries, to providing an essential resource to business and agriculture, and a source of recreation.
Water pollution and drought threaten these things. Therefore it is...More
The Humber: Hull Frontage scheme is a £42 million flood defence scheme to upgrade the defences along the edge of the Humber Estuary to protect the city of Hull from tidal flooding.
The scheme will reduce the risk of flooding from the estuary for 113,000 properties. It will upgrade tidal...More
The Exmouth Tidal Defence Scheme is a £12 million scheme to improve flood defences in Exmouth.
The Environment Agency is working in partnership with East Devon District Council to deliver the scheme which will reduce the risk of tidal flooding to over 1,400 residential and 400 commercial...More
The Environment Agency is working with partners, to find ways to reduce flooding from the River Thames in north Reading and Lower Caversham.
This webpage contains links to our maps, drawings and information we shared at our December 2018 public drop-ins.
For an overview...More
The Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) requires EPR permits to be reviewed when the relevant Best Available Techniques Reference Document (BRef) for the sector is published. The Intensive Rearing of Pigs and Poultry BRef was published in February 2017.
The Environment Agency...More
The environmental permit was issued in June 2016. It sets out conditions for operations covering surface and groundwater protection, safe storage of waste and noise from mining waste activities. Exploratory drilling began on the 22 January 2019 and was completed in late March 2019.
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This page provides a summary of proposals for the Outstrays to Skeffling Managed Realignment Scheme. Please take a few minutes to watch our video which explains what the project is about:
What’s proposed:
The Outstrays to Skeffling Managed Realignment Scheme is a joint...More
Regulation at IGas' site at Tinker Lane
The environmental permit was issued in November 2016. It sets out conditions for operations covering surface water, safe storage of waste and noise from mining waste activities. Exploratory drilling began on site in November 2018 and was completed on...More
Updated December 2019
Welcome to The River Roding Project information page
This page provides a summary of our work to reduce the flooding to homes, businesses and infrastructure in the Woodford and Ilford areas (North East London), as well as how we plan to improve the River Roding for...More
Aerial view of the Ouse Washes flooded
The purpose of this page is to provide information on how the Environment Agency maintains the protection from flood risk for homes and businesses along the Ouse Washes and how it complies with the Reservoirs Act 1975.
T h e Ou se W as h e s...More
The Environment Agency is the environmental regulator for onshore oil and gas operations in England. We ensure that oil and gas operations are carried out in a way that protects people and the environment. We work with a number of regulatory bodies to oversee shale gas exploration in England....More
We know climate change is going to increase flood or coastal erosion risk for many communities. There will be some places where the current ways to manage risk will not work in the long term, and alternative, more sustainable options will be needed. We need to work closely with those...More
Historically, taking water from the environment for certain uses and from certain sources could be done without an abstraction licence. We called these ‘exempt activities’.
From the 1 January 2018, new regulations came into effect which mean most of these previously exempt...More
The Environment Agency is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We were established in 1996 and work to create better places for people and wildlife, and support sustainable development.
Within...More
Updated on: 17 January 2020
Welcome to the Mereway project information webpage. Please click the link below to FAQs at the bottom of the page.
FAQs
What is currently happening?
We are currently preparing for the main weir replacement works which...More
Page created January 2020. Last updated January 2020.
Background
We are sorry to hear that residents are experiencing problems with odour in the local area. Please be assured that we are working constantly with the operator, Biffa Waste Services Ltd, to resolve these issues.
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Page created July 2019. Last updated December 2019.
Background
We are removing Dove Cliff weir to improve biodiversity and improve fish passage through the entire Dove catchment. Dove Cliff weir was structurally assessed in 2016 and sections were found to be in a poor condition....More
We have identified more than 700 properties at risk of flooding in and around Graveney. We are working with both Croydon and Lambeth Councils to develop a flood alleviation scheme to reduce this risk to 340 homes along the River Graveney and Norbury Brook.
Project Update - November...More