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The Environment Agency has officially opened over 7 kilometres of new river and sea defences in the coastal town of Shoreham, helping to keep the community safe from flooding from storms and rising sea levels.
Almost 300 properties included in flood-prevention scheme
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
After an absence of 400 years, the Eurasian beaver is back in Essex, with a pair now released into an enclosure on a historic country estate.
In 1968 a summer storm flooded homes and businesses across Devon and Somerset, thousands were driven from their homes and tragically a number of lives were lost.
The tiny coastal community of Stolford has become the first location in the UK to benefit from innovative flood defence technology pioneered in Holland.
Building work began on a unique fish pass, which is being built underneath the nearby disused 19th century pump house on River Churnet.
Horse power is being used at Harden Moor in West Yorkshire, as part of a project to trial natural flood management techniques to reduce the risk of flooding.
The study uses climate change, population and mapping data to set out future flood risk scenarios.
People living in Dorset, Salisbury Plain and Wiltshire South Downs are urged to check their groundwater flood risk and sign up for alerts.
The bells of St Paul's Church will ring an SOS in the event of a flood warning if all usual forms of communications fail.
Staff from the Environment Agency and Trent Rivers Trust have been showing their love of nature this Valentine’s Day, helping plant over 1,700 trees on farmland.
The new flood scheme will protect 1,600 homes and 400 businesses in Ipswich over the next century.
The installation of new field drainage at a Coal Authority asset has been successfully completed thanks to a small local contractor.
Hundreds of thousands of fish have been saved thanks to the Environment Agency's speedy actions to close a barrier during a surge tide this week.
The Environment Agency is inviting residents in Ponteland, Northumberland, to a drop-in event to find out more about flood protection in the town.
Government is beginning a conversation on increasing local funding for flood and coastal erosion management.
Construction of a multi-million pound scheme to protect thousands of homes and businesses in Hull from flooding from the Humber has been given the go ahead.
Motorists across the North East can now get information on car parks at risk of flooding in a new project from the Environment Agency and local authorities.
Carlisle residents are being invited to share their thoughts on a flood risk management scheme for the town at an upcoming community drop-in session.
More than 400 properties better protected from river and tides by longer, higher walls plus other improvements.
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