Geovation Water Challenge: Environment Agency - Flooding

Post on 14-Apr-2017

194 views 1 download

Transcript of Geovation Water Challenge: Environment Agency - Flooding

Rhys HobbsMapping Modelling and Data

Flooding and our role

• Planning and Strategic Overview

• Incident Response

• Recovery

• Flood Risk Mapping

• Asset Management

• Catchment Management

• Emergency Planning

Planning and Strategic Overview

• Integrating different sources of flooding into modelling

• Climate change impacts

• Modelling Groundwater and SuDS

• Communicating messages to public (flood risk management vs flood defence)

• Catchment management (soft vs hard engineering)

Challenges