- Council provides funds to help small businesses
- Financial help for keeping warm this winter
- Improve your health at York House
- Heathrow's airtrack train plan criticised
- Have your own say on Academies
- Mayor's Christmas invite
- Net closing on Council Tax cheats
- Step pedal jump your way to rugby!
- Borough has the lowest level of alcohol fueled crimes in London
- Play safe at Halloween warning
- Enjoy a week of entertainment at Heathfield centre
- Spreading the safety message
- New funding agreed to combat the recession
- Support your local lollipop person
- Disappointment as Boris' public transport costs rise
- Ham and Petersham win £100,000 for low carbon zone
- Borough children's favourite nursery rhyme revealed on Bookstart Day
- Eastender at East Sheen Library
- Destination Richmond
- Green fingers win prizes for winning allotments
- Free flood warnings for residents at risk in Richmond
- Huge turnout for older people's event
- RISE event success
- Best Cemetery Award for Richmond and East Sheen
- Take part in Black History Month celebrations
- World Sight Day celebrated
- Question time comes to Richmond
- 2M fears local people may loose out to Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
- 1,000 people control their social care budgets
- £2.85 million for new homes
- Richmond Council confirms sponsor for Shene Academy
- Richmond Council extends CO2 parking
Release Date: 09/10/2009
Free flood warnings for residents at risk in Richmond
Richmond residents at risk of flooding can receive free flood warnings in a text message or by email.
The flood warnings are also available via telephone, pager or fax when residents and businesses sign up to the Environment Agency’s ’Floodline Warnings Direct’ service.
A public exhibition will take place on 13 October 2009 in St Mary’s Hall, Teddington from 3-8pm to enable residents to come along and find out if they are at risk of flooding and to register to Floodline Warnings Direct.
Visitors will be able to get information on how to prepare for flooding and how to make their own flood plan. There will be leaflets to take away, information and maps on display and staff from the Environment Agency on hand to answer questions.
The exhibition will also be an opportunity to learn about and comment on the Environment Agency’s draft Lower Thames Flood Risk Management Strategy.
Recommendations of the draft strategy include building flood diversion channels, improving weir structures, providing some localised protection for groups of houses and a range of other ways of managing the floodplain.
Some areas of Teddington fall into the Lower Thames floodplain, which currently has 15,000 residential properties at a 1% risk of flooding in any one year.
Cllr Geoff Acton, Richmond Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “Flooding is a very real concern in some areas of the borough and this is an important opportunity for residents to be involved in the consultation for the Lower Thames Flood Risk Management Strategy.”
“I would like to encourage people to sign up to receive ’Floodline Warnings Direct’ as it is a free and valuable service which will help safe guard all those at risk of flooding.”
John Cooper, from the flood incident management team at the Environment Agency, said: "Living in the floodplain is never without risk, so it is vital that residents and businesses have plans in place to minimise the damage and impact which flooding can cause. It doesn’t cost anything to register to receive Flood Warnings but it could make a huge difference in reducing damage to valuables if they are moved to safety.”
The Council will respond formally to the Lower Thames Strategy consultation by Friday 4 December.
More information about flooding.
Further information is available on the Environment Agency website.
Residents can also sign up to receive Flood Warnings Direct online.
View the full press release