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Responsibilities for flooding
In Scotland responsibilities are split among SEPA/local authorities and other agencies such as Scottish Water. The responsibilities are set out in the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, but are summarised here - Responsibilities for flooding | Beta | SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency .
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SEPA are the strategic flood risk management authority and flood forecasting and warning authority
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Local authorities are the local flood risk management authority for their area and responsible for
· Implementing and maintaining flood protection actions
· Inspecting, maintaining, and clearing rivers and waterbodies to reduce flood risk – this information is available for Dumfries and Galloway here & Dumfries and Galloway Council should be able to provide further information- Watercourse inspections and clearance - Dumfries and Galloway Council
· Responding to flooding events
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Responsible for actions in Solway Local Flood Risk Management Plan (Cycle 2). Action to be undertaken to understand flooding in Kirkton before 2028 listed on page 77.
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Scottish Water – responsible for flooding from sewage network
Preparing for Flooding
I know you are already signed up to Floodline, the Scottish Flood Forecast is another resource which gives up to 3 days outlook of possible flooding and expected flooding impacts Scottish Flood Forecast | Monday 16 December 2024
Additional information and advice can be found on our website Prepare for flooding | Beta | SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Insurance
You mentioned your home insurance is due for renewal soon. You may wish to see if you are eligible for FloodRe specialist flood insurance Flood Re - A flood re-insurance scheme. If your home was built before 2009 you should be eligible and may help you access a more reasonable insurance premium.
Upper Nith Restoration - Upper Nith River Restoration Project – Tweed Forum
I hope this is of some help, please let me know if you have any questions. Please do let me know if your group are meeting in the new year and I’d be happy to come and meet with you.
Potential Vulnerable areas
SEPA INFO FROM WEBINAR NOV 2024
We talked through our communications toolkit at the event and ask that you use your own networks to share this information more widely in your communities to help us all be more resilient to the impacts of flooding.
You can access the toolkit here.
Please also find attached all the presentations that were shared at the event. Unfortunately, we were unable to record the event on this occasion, but we have already noted this as feedback for any future events.
Useful links
There were several useful links shared in the chat at the event, we have included these below in case you didn’t get a chance to take note of them.
Flood protection equipment:
Flood Barriers, Flood Defences & Flood Protection – FloodStop
Floodstop Flood Barrier Bundle 0.5m High | From Aspli Safety
Rivertrack:
RiverTrack, flood alerting for resilient communities
Scottish Flood Forum:
The Scottish Flood Forum - Supporting Flood Risk Communities
Flood Risk Management Plans:
Flood Risk Management Plans | SEPA
Funding:
Funding - The National Centre for Resilience
Floodline:
Sign up to Floodline | Floodline
Water levels:
Find Scottish water levels information - Map View | Scottish Environment Protection Agency | SEPA
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Clackmannanshire Council
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SEPA Presentation
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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Soil Hydrology
I am pleased the rainfall figures have been useful and I can send them again for 2024 after December, it may be late January as it can take a few weeks for the data to be entered onto our system. Unfortunately there has been a slight loss of detail with some of the recent months. These can be missing some of the weekend values (or the value being an accumulated value over several days) as the work has been scaled back as we prepare to leave the Crichton Royal Farm to concentrate all our activities at the Barony Campus.
However, there is some other data from the last 10 years that I didn’t think about before. This is from the COSMOS project run by CEH and the Crichton farm has been a monitoring site for the last 10 years ( https://cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/CRICH). There are monthly updates for the sites (https://cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/COSMOS-UK%20Summary%202024_11.pdf ). The rainfall and other records are part of a list of data https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/399ed9b1-bf59-4d85-9832-ee4d29f49bfb/ and the Crichton data are the 5 files starting with cosmos-uk_crich_hydrosoil . This data is in quite a raw form and will need pulling together in a more useable form. Unfortunately I have not had time to do this yet.
There are hydrological summaries as well (for example from September this year https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/HS_202410.pdf ) and an archive of past summaries that you might find helpful (https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/monthly-hydrological-summary-uk ).
I hope all this additional data is of use.
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