Flooding late June 2012 Carol Holt Senior Flood & Coastal Risk - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Flooding late June 2012 Carol Holt Senior Flood & Coastal Risk Management Team Leader

Topics Warning & Informing Impacts Detail of affected communities Next steps Quick wins

Thinking Big; Acting Early Worked hard to raise awareness with briefings Twitter and social media Teams ensuring assets free of obstructions Re-visited priority sites Deployed staff to our basins We opened our incident rooms

Warning & Informing 83mm fell in 24 hours Mobilised teams to operate defences and clear blockages 3000 homes and businesses protected Flood basins operated Garstang & Catterall Preston

Wednesday 20 th June Thursday 21 st June Friday 22 nd June 09:00 Notification of Flood Advisory Teleconference at 01:00 01:00 1pm 10:00 02:00 02:00 Amber F.G.S. for River & Surface on Fri & Sat 10:30 03:00 03:00 11:00 Amber Alert for Rain on Friday PM Flood Alert – Lower Ribble & Darwen 04:00 04:00 12:15 Flood Alert – Lostock & Yarrow 12:25 Flood Alert – Lower River Wyre 12:00 05:00 05:00 12:35 Flood Alert – Upper Wyre & Brock 12:35 Flood Alert – Upper River Douglas 06:00 06:00 12:40 Flood Alert – Crossens 13:00 12:46 Flood Alert – Calder 07:00 07:00 12:50 Flood Advisory Partner Teleconference @ 13:00 Flood Alert – Upper River Irwell 14:00 13:50 08:00 08:00 Amber F.G.S. for River & Surface on Fri & Sat 14:00 Flood Alert – Upper River Ribble 09:00 09:00 14:00 Flood Alert – Lower River Lune & Conder 15:00 14:56 Flood Warning – Burrow Beck ‘A 10:00 10:00 15:12 Flood Warning – Burrow Beck ‘B’ 15:35 11:00 11:00 Flood Guidance Statement - 16:00 Flood Warning – Colne Water @ Lenches ‘A’ Yellow 16:46 Flood Warning – Yarrow @ Croston ‘A 12:00 12:00 River & Surface for Friday 21 st 17:15 Flood Warning – Conder @ Galgate ‘A’ Notification of Flood Advisory 17:00 Flood Alert – Upper River Lune 17:38 13:00 13:00 Teleconference at 3pm 17:44 Flood Alert – Lower River Douglas 18:03 Flood Warning – Ribble @ Ribchester‘A’ Amber Alert for Rain on Friday 14:00 14:00 Amber F.G.S for River & Surface 18:00 18:36 Flood Warning – Yarrow @ Croston ‘B’ Water on Fri & Sat 19:00 Flood Warning – Irwell @ Strongstry/Chatterton 15:00 15:00 14:30 Flood Warning – Irwell Vale 19:07 19:08 19:00 16:00 16:00 Flood Warning – Darwen @ Waterfall “A” Flood Advisory Partner Flood Guidance Statement - 19:18 Flood Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘A’ Teleconference 19:19 Yellow Flood Warning – Irwell @ Waterfoot ‘A’ 17:00 17:00 River & Surface for Friday 21 st 19:22 Flood Warning – Irwell @ Rawtenstall 20:00 Flood Warning – Irwell @ Stubbylee ‘1’ 19:25 18:00 18:00 19:25 Flood Warning – Irwell @ Bacup 19:27 Flood Warning – Irwell @ Stubbylee ‘2’ 19:00 19:00 21:00 19:27 Flood Warning – Ribble @ Samlesbury ‘A’ 19:40 Flood Warning – Ribble @ Walton-le-Dale ‘A’ 20:00 20:00 20:05 Flood Warning – Ribble @ Walton-le-Dale ‘B’ 22:00 20:15 Flood Warning – Calder @ Burnley Town Centre ‘A’ 21:00 21:00 20:17 Flood Warning – Calder @ Fulledge ‘A’ 20:26 Flood Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘B’ 22:00 22:00 20:32 Flood Warning – Greenbrook & Sweetclough ‘A’ 23:00 20:49 Flood Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘C’ 21:04 23:00 23:00 Flood Warning – Darwen @ Higher Walton ‘A’ 21:39 Flood Warning – Trawden Brook @ Trawden ‘A’ 21:46 Flood Warning – Darwen @ Higher Walton ‘B’ 22:53

Impact

Number of properties flooded Date Properties Properties Properties flooded Blackburn warned protected with Darwen 22 – 24 June 4,783 8,900 96 2012 28 – 29 June 0 5,836 18 2012 5 – 6 July 2012 836 7,519 4 Totals over 3 5,619 22,255 116 weeks UNCLASSIFIED

Recovery Assets Data & Evidence Communities Media Hot Issues

Quick wins Sign up to flood warnings Property level flood plans Resilience schemes Embed warnings in to web sites Social media Flood Action Groups

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