Page content section :
Community safety
Consultation :
- Rivers
Arun to Adur - draft flood and erosion management strategy - Public exhibition
dates and further information are available on the Environment Agency website
(responses due by 18 September 2008) : www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/consultations/2070005/?version=1&lang=_e
See also our webpages on : Flood and Coastal Defence and River Adur
Flooding in Adur
Several
small 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 are available here :
- Flooding - preparing for a flood (.PDF 386kb)
- Flooding - during a flood (.PDF 318kb)
- Flooding - recovering from a flood (.PDF 240kb)
- See also the Environment Agency website for more flood advice (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/826674/830330/?version=1&lang=_e)
You
can visit the following useful page on the Environment Agency's website :
- Flood
warnings page for details of current flood warnings (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)
- 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
- Sandbag protocol (includes
list of suppliers) (.PDF 27kb)
- Flood trials in Adur, August 2007 (below)
- 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
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)
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)
