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Flooding in Adur
Sandbags
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.
FloodSax can be purchased online from the FloodSax® website :
(http://www.edslimited.co.uk/Products/Want-to-buy-FloodSax)
Residents of Adur can receive a 10% discount on their order when they purchase online and enter the promotional code ‘adur10’.
For more information about the bags please contact :
- Tony Lucas, Emergency Planning Officer on (01903) 221025
- Send Emergency planning an e-mail
See also :
- FloodSax® user guide (.PDF 158kb)
- FloodSax® website (EDS Limited) (www.floodsax.co.uk/)
- FloodSax® on the Environmental Defence Systems Ltd (EDS) 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)
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
