31/03/2005 - The Environment
Agency announced on the 31st March 2005 that
the final Trent Fluvial Strategy report, the
result of a major flood study of the River
Trent from Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire
to Cromwell Weir, downstream of Newark, is
now complete.
We started work on the strategy in June 2002.
A draft of the report, released almost exactly
a year ago, attracted considerable interest
from statutory consultees and members of the
public. Their comments have been considered
in depth and were taken into account when
preparing the final version.
The strategy report summarises the research
and analysis we have undertaken. It provides
details of all flood-risk management options,
and identifies preferred options. The full
strategy document comprises a main report
and several technical appendices. A CD of
the Trent Fluvial Strategy Report can be obtained
by calling Loreta Adams on 08708 506506, or
e-mail the request to loreta.adams@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Project Manager Loreta Adams says: "We
have been delighted at the interest shown
in the Trent Fluvial Strategy. The issue of
the final report today is the culmination
of several years of intensive study into the
behaviour of the River Trent and how we might
live and work in harmony with it in the years
to come.
"The work has provided us with valuable
new information about the river and we are
already using it as the basis of our decisions
on the planning and management of flood defences."
Notes
The Trent Fluvial Strategy report is the
first major study of flooding on the River
Trent to look at flooding in an holistic way.
It investigates flood management options and
allows the effects of any proposed schemes
to be assessed. It also offers an opportunity
to identify areas that may be at risk from
increased flooding due to climate change.
Detailed work on the strategy began in June
2002 with the publication of a scoping report.
This report invited comments on all issues
associated with flooding along the Trent.
Consultation and communication with local
people continued throughout the development
of the strategy through regular progress reports.
The main stage of work involved:
1. identifying those areas and properties
currently at risk from flooding
2. identifying possible flood risk management
options
3. the technical, economic and environmental
assessment of possible options.
The strategy report is the culmination of
the study. It summarises the work undertaken,
with details of all flood risk management
options, and identifies those which are preferred.
