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Flooding Late June 2012 Flooding late June 2012 Carol Holt Senior Flood & Coastal Risk Management Team Leader Topics Warning & Informing Impacts Detail of affected communities Next steps Quick wins Thinking Big; Acting Early Worked hard to raise awareness with briefings Twitter and social media Teams ensuring assets free of obstructions Re-visited priority sites Deployed staff to our basins We opened our incident rooms Warning & Informing 83mm fell in 24 hours Mobilised teams to operate defences and clear blockages 3000 homes and businesses protected Flood basins operated Garstang & Catterall Preston th Wednesday 20 June Thursday 21 st June 09:00 Friday 22 nd June 01:00 01:00 Notification of Flood Advisory Teleconference at 1pm 10:00 02:00 02:00 Amber F.G.S. for River & Surface on Fri & Sat 10:30 03:00 03:00 11:00 Amber Alert for Rain on Friday PM Flood Alert – Lower Ribble & Darwen 04:00 04:00 Flood12:15 Alert – Lostock & Yarrow 12:00 Flood12:25 Alert – Lower River Wyre 05:00 05:00 Flood12:35 Alert – Upper Wyre & Brock Flood12:35 Alert – Upper River Douglas 06:00 06:00 12:40 13:00 Flood Alert – Crossens 12:46Flood Alert – Calder 07:00 07:00 12:50 Flood Advisory Partner Teleconference @ 13:00 Flood Alert – Upper River Irwell 08:00 08:00 14:00 13:50 Amber F.G.S. for River & Surface on Fri & Sat 14:00 09:00 09:00 Flood Alert – Upper River Ribble 15:00 Flood14:00 Alert – Lower River Lune & Conder 10:00 10:00 Flood14:56 Warning – Burrow Beck ‘A Flood15:12 Warning – Burrow Beck ‘B’ 11:00 11:00 15:35 Flood Guidance Statement - 16:00 Flood Warning – Colne Water @ Lenches ‘A’ Yellow 16:46 Flood Warning – Yarrow @ Croston ‘A 12:00 12:00 River & Surface for Friday 21 st Flood17:15 Warning – Conder @ Galgate ‘A’ Notification of Flood Advisory 17:00 13:00 13:00 Flood17:38 Alert – Upper River Lune Teleconference at 3pm Flood17:44 Alert – Lower River Douglas 14:00 14:00 Amber Alert for Rain on Friday Flood18:03 Warning – Ribble @ Ribchester‘A’ 18:00 Amber F.G.S for River & Surface Flood18:36 Warning – Yarrow @ Croston ‘B’ 15:00 15:00 Water on Fri & Sat Flood19:00 Warning – Irwell @ Strongstry/Chatterton 14:30 Flood19:07 Warning – Irwell Vale 16:00 16:00 19:00 19:08 Flood Advisory Partner Flood Warning – Darwen @ Waterfall “A” Flood Guidance Statement - 19:18Flood Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘A’ Teleconference 17:00 Yellow 17:00 Flood19:19 Warning – Irwell @ Waterfoot ‘A’ st River & Surface for Friday 21 20:00 Flood19:22 Warning – Irwell @ Rawtenstall 18:00 18:00 19:25Flood Warning – Irwell @ Stubbylee ‘1’ Flood19:25 Warning – Irwell @ Bacup 19:00 19:00 19:27Flood Warning – Irwell @ Stubbylee ‘2’ 21:00 19:27 Flood Warning – Ribble @ Samlesbury ‘A’ 20:00 20:00 Flood19:40 Warning – Ribble @ Walton-le-Dale ‘A’ 20:05Flood Warning – Ribble @ Walton-le-Dale ‘B’ 22:00 21:00 21:00 20:15Flood Warning – Calder @ Burnley Town Centre ‘A’ Flood20:17 Warning – Calder @ Fulledge ‘A’ 20:26Flood Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘B’ 22:00 22:00 23:00 20:32Flood Warning – Greenbrook & Sweetclough ‘A’ Flood20:49 Warning – Calder @ Whalley ‘C’ 23:00 23:00 21:04 Flood Warning – Darwen @ Higher Walton ‘A’ Flood21:39 Warning – Trawden Brook @ Trawden ‘A’ 21:46 Flood Warning – Darwen @ Higher Walton ‘B’ 22:53 Impact Number of properties flooded Date Properties Properties Properties flooded Blackburn warned protected with Darwen 22 – 24 June 4,783 8,900 96 2012 28 – 29 June 0 5,836 18 2012 5 –6 July 2012 836 7,519 4 Totals over 3 5,619 22,255 116 weeks UNCLASSIFIED Recovery Assets Data & Evidence Communities Media Hot Issues Quick wins Sign up to flood warnings Property level flood plans Resilience schemes Embed warnings in to web sites Social media Flood Action Groups THANK YOU.
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