Flood Alert Smartphone Application Real time warning updates – direct to your mobile

This highly successful Key features smartphone allows users to monitor: application allows users to  live status of flood alerts that are relevant to the users current location get real time updates on  live status of flood alerts for up to two user defined flood warnings near them, at locations locations such as your home, office, or elderly important to them and for the rest of relative’s house  live flood alert information displayed by England and Wales. Environment Agency or local authority region Over five million people in England and Wales live The application provides links to guidance on how to and work in properties that are at risk of flooding from be prepared and what to do when it . It also rivers or the sea. Everyone in an ‘at risk’ area needs allows you to directly contact FloodLine, the to be aware of flooding and the current Environment Agency’s free flood warning service in situation, even when on the go. order to obtain further information. You can do this by checking the flood forecasts on the A professional version of the flood warning application Environment Agency website, by listening to local which provides additional capabilities and functionality news and weather forecasts or by simply opening the allowing the user to tailor this application to their Flood Alert application on your smartphone. specific needs is planned for release in 2013. Using the latest technology available, the Environment Environment Agency Licensed Flood Agency provides Halcrow, as a licensed flood warning Warning Service Provider service provider, live flood warning data throughout England and Wales 24 hours a day. Halcrow is an Environment Agency licensed flood warning service provider and can produce custom Using the Environment Agency’s live flood warning applications and enterprise solutions using the live feeds, Halcrow has developed Flood Alert a flood warning feeds to meet specific client needs. smartphone application which allows users to quickly, efficiently and conveniently monitor flooding in areas that are important or close to them. Flood Alert is currently available on Apple and Blackberry devices. Android users will also be able to download it in 2013

A CH2M HILL COMPANY Flood Alert features Flood warnings near to the user National view of   flood warnings Based on geo-location, users can see flood warnings for their current location and obtain more information A national view of the about the risk they face. Environment Agency This innovative flood warnings is also application provides available within the information and application. advice on what the In each Environment user should do if at Agency or local risk from flooding. It authority region the also links directly to current flood warnings the Environment in force will be Agency website displayed allowing the through the phones user to monitor web browser, flooding events on a allowing the user to national scale. access further information.  Flood alert As the application is description fully integrated with A valuable feature of the users’ the application is smartphone, they specific information can communicate on the flood event the risk of flooding which can help users to a friend or family member by text, email or understand their telephone call. current risk and the expected future  Flood warnings for specific locations changes. Users can register for a Flood Alert account where It also provides they can save important locations, such as homes or information on when local businesses. the alert was raised Once users have and last updated. registered for an account, they will How to download Flood Alert receive flood warnings up to two A free version of Flood Alert can be downloaded from days in advance of the Apple ‘App Store’ and Blackberry ‘App World’. when the flooding is expected to occur. Blackberry Apple Notifications will be Download Download provided for each of the users’ saved locations allowing them to prepare Contact us themselves well in  Vijay Jain – United Kingdom advance of any tel +44(0)203 479 8195 potential flooding. email [email protected]  Richard Crowder - Global tel +44(0)113 220 8294 email [email protected]

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