managing flood risk Yorkshire Derwent Catchment Flood Management Plan March 2007 We are the Environment Agency. It’s our job to look after your environment and make it a better place – for you, and for future generations. Your environment is the air you breathe, the water you drink and the ground you walk on. Working with business, Government and society as a whole, we are making your environment cleaner and healthier. The Environment Agency. Out there, making your environment a better place. Published by: Environment Agency Rivers House 21 Park Square South Leeds LE1 2QG Tel: 0870 8506506 Email:
[email protected] www.environment-agency.gov.uk © Environment Agency All rights reserved. This document may be reproduced with prior permission of the Environment Agency. Preface Our goal is to reduce the risk of flooding from rivers and the sea to Options have been identified that apply to both individual people, homes, businesses, infrastructure and the natural environment. communities and the wider Derwent catchment. We have used information on land use and climate change as the main inputs to Flooding is a natural process – we can never stop it happening the CFMP as these are thought to be the main causes of increased altogether. So tackling flooding is more than just defending against flood risk in the catchment in future years. floods. It means understanding the complex causes of flooding and taking action together to reduce flood risk. The Yorkshire Derwent catchment is a predominantly rural catchment located in the north east of England. The catchment To reduce flood risk we need to work in partnership with local extends south from the North Yorkshire Moors and flows into the planning authorities, landowners, local communities, emergency River Ouse at Barmby on the Marsh south of Selby.