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Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
Severn Estuary Forum 2014
Tuesday 16th September
Louise Pennington
Senior Coastal Advisor, Flood Risk Strategy
Natural Resources Wales
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
Recent Coastal Storms in Wales
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
Distribution of Flood Warnings
Phase 1 report published on 14th February 2014 at:
http://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/flooding-and-water/flood-alerts-and-
warnings/flood-reports/wales-coastal-flooding-report/?lang=en
Quoting from the Minister’s written statement of 9th January 2014:
‘Phase one will be a swift review
of the impacts across the whole
of the country from both coastal
flooding events and will look at the
state of the coastal defences
following the storm event. This
will be produced by the end of
January 2014.
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
Phase 1
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Coastal Impact Locations
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Properties flooded by location
Tidal flooding at Tintern,
2nd January 2014
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Estimated restoration costs by organisation
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Locations of damages avoided to
properties and agriculture
Returning to the Minister’s written statement of 9th January 2014:
‘Phase two will look into the wider lessons learnt from both of these coastal
flooding incidents and flood risk management in affected areas and include:
•Details of the flood event, its modelling and forecasting
• Operational response from flood risk management authorities
• How defences performed, properties affected and estimates of those
protected
• Impacts on infrastructure and resilience to future flood events
• Lessons learnt, so that we can be better prepared for future events.’
Scope of Phase 2
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Phase 2 report published on 30th April 2014 at:
http://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/flooding-and-water/flood-alerts-and-
warnings/flood-reports/wales-coastal-flooding-review-phase-2-report/?lang=en
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Recommendations
drawn into
6 priority areas
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There needs to be sustained investment in
coastal flood and erosion risk management.
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
There needs to be improved information on
coastal flood defence and erosion
management systems.
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There needs to be greater clarity on
roles and responsibilities.
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There needs to be an assessment of the skills and
capacity of risk management authorities.
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There needs to be more support to communities to
help them become more self-sufficient and resilient.
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There needs to be locally developed and delivered
plans for coastal communities and infrastructure
operators.
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast
In May 2014 the Minister instructed NRW to ‘commence work on developing a
delivery plan, co-ordinating closely with Risk Management Authorities and
Welsh Government Officials’.
Since then we have:
• Collated our initial thoughts on a Delivery Plan and met with Welsh
Government and the Welsh Local Government Association.
• Acted on opportunities available to progress specific Recommendations.
• Issued a briefing note to all Phase 1 & Phase 2 contributing parties.
• Held an Initial Workshop with Risk Management Authorities.
In July 2014 the Minister responded to the Recommendations by issuing a
written statement accepting 42 outright and the remaining 5 in principle.
Recent progress
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Future challenges…
Rec. 10.
Assess our national capacity to respond to a widespread and sustained
period of coastal flooding. This should include consideration of when
the current national resource pool will no longer function effectively.
This should also consider post incident recovery issues.
Provide a report with recommendations for improvement.
Rec. 22.
Assess the collective ability to provide an effective response to a
potential large scale evacuation scenario in either north east or south
east Wales. This should also consider post incident recovery issues.
Provide a report with recommendations for improvement.
The Wales Flood Group are planning a coastal evacuation exercise in
Llantrisant on 10th March 2015 aiming ‘to identify gaps and learning
before and during a catastrophic tidal event affecting the South Wales
coastline’.
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Thank you for listening
Winter Storms – Impacts on the Welsh Coast