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This project has produced guidance on designing and examining spillways and the mechanisms that could lead to spillway failure.
Helping practitioners undertake meaningful early benefit and cost assessments in flood and coastal risk management investment programmes.
The project provides practitioners, who need to undertake integrated risk assessments, with updated guidance and current best practice.
Producing a guide for the design, operation and management of culverts, trash screens and outfalls.
Developing a hydrology roadmap for the UK to highlight priority work in this topic area.
A report detailing a consistent approach to the design and management of both rock and timber groynes.
Exploring and evaluating governance and partnership approaches in flood and coastal erosion risk management.
Report published. Assessment of how strategic surface water management informs Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) delivery through the planning system.
A review into how information on all sources of flooding is used in spatial planning to achieve good outcomes for flood and coastal risk management
Providing a framework and evidence base for verifying and optimising current and future ensemble flood forecasting systems.
This project re-defined what causes ‘coastal squeeze’ and assessed the best way of managing its past and future impacts.
We’ve been working with international partners to promote natural flood management and published new guidance
Join upcoming workshops on coastal monitoring techniques and technologies that are available to document historical coastal change
Improving evidence to inform funding and spending.
We’re assessing the suitability of existing methods for estimating PMP and PMF. We're developing new methods and guidelines to understand risks posed to reservoirs from extreme flood events.
We’re working out how to measure changes in resilience to flooding and coastal change over time.
We will review and collate historical coastal change evidence and create a methodological framework to document historical coastal change.
This report has reviewed the evidence behind carbon offsetting looking at a wide range of different offsetting approaches which could be used in the UK.
This project identified ways to assess and predict where river channels are affected by geomorphological change across England and Wales.
This project provides evidence of current approaches to managing groundwater flood risk across England.
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