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What to do if you’re about to be flooded and during flooding: who to contact, how to stay safe, how to report a problem.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
Support if you’ve been flooded: how to clear up, dispose of contaminated items and sandbags, repair your property.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
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