flood recovery in yorkshire – a dual perspective
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Flood Recovery In Yorkshire – a dual perspective
Jonathan Moxon
Flood Risk Manager
Leeds City CouncilMarch 2017
Some Questions:
□Community resilience, should we be using the big events to promote future sustainability?
□Resilience Grants help or hindrance?
□Learning lessons and making changes, do we share the lessons and are changes actually made?
□What’s the difference between recovery for local events and national major events for those affected?
Whats covered?
□Storm Desmond & Eva impacts
□Community response
□Investment in infrastructure
□Who have we forgotten….?
□Storm Desmond -#Team EA
□Catchment partnerships
□Infrastructure repairs
□Resilience grants
□Flood groups
Storm Eva
December 2015
Malham Cove
Yorkshire Dales
“became a waterfall
for first time in
centuries following
Storm Desmond”
(The Telegraph).
Kirkstall Road
Business Impacts of December 2015 Floods
Strategic Flood Investigation ReportUnder Section 19 of the Flood and
Water Management Act 2010
Recovery Group Recommendations
□Infrastructure mapping
□Data sharing
□Building community resilience
Flood Groups
Volunteer co-ordination/ management
□Roles & Responsibilities
□Sandbags
□Communication & Engagement
□Post incident report
□Multi-agency shared learning
Community Response - Team Kirkstall
City Centre – Crown Point weir
Investment – Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme
□Phase 1
city centre
3 main elements
£50m – multiple sources
100yr + Climate Change
□Phase 2
Catchment wide approach
£65m++
Range of measuresLatest ProgressTwitter - @LeedsFASYouTube – Leeds FAShttps://youtu.be/lBhJsudrLuM
□Phase 1
Catchment based approach
□Phase 2
Catchment based approach
□The forgotten floods
Summer floods 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Resilience grants
Flood Re
Recovery funding
Government Budget announcements
The clean up and the long road to recovery
• Flood Insurance• Personal and
business flood planning
• Technical NOT sales based advice