Lead Local Flood Authority Update Dave Watkins, Strategic Environment Team Cornwall Council CCFF AGM – 6 October 2016 Flood Risk Management Responsibilities • Lead Local Flood Authority – Surface water, groundwater, Ordinary Watercourses • Environment Agency – Main Rivers, reservoirs, the sea, strategic overview • South West Water – Sewers • Highways Agency – Trunk roads / motorways • Land/property owners – Riparian responsibility • Emergency Services – Emergency response, public safety Contents • Review of flood events in the past year • Raise awareness of some of the projects we have been working on • Mention event of 13 September 2016 Outrageous statement? No properties flooded in Cornwall in 2015 Properties in Cornwall affected by internal flooding Year No of properties 2011 24 2012 243 2013 83 2014 329 2015 0 2016 (excluding 26 13th September) However • Includes only internal flooding • Far more properties “affected” by flooding • Excludes those that Cornwall Council are unaware of • Excludes coastal damages Events over last 12 months • 13 August 2015 • Heavy rain swept across Cornwall with surface water affecting highways • A39 at Norway Inn flooded but passable • Fire crews narrowly circumvented property flooding at Stithians Events over last 12 months • 27 October 2015 • Two days of persistent heavy rain • Coinciding high tides • Liskeard to Looe branch railway line was closed due to flooding Events over last 12 months • Atlantic Storms of Winter 2015/6 • Catastrophic flooding in North of England but Cornwall largely unaffected • Storm Desmond – 5/6 December • Storm Eva – 23/24 December • Damage to sea wall at Looe Harbour Events over last 12 months • Atlantic Storms of Winter 2015/6 • Storm Frank – 29/30 December • Sea wall failure at Long Rock resulting in closure of the SW Coast Path • Seawall failure also occurred at Castle Beach in Falmouth Events over last 12 months • Atlantic Storms of Winter 2015/6 • Wake of Storm Imogen – 6 February 2016 • A30 and A39 suffered significant traffic problems due to flooding • Flooding occurred across West Cornwall and North Cornwall • five people had to be rescued from cars trapped in floodwaters Events over last 12 months • Atlantic Storms of Winter 2015/6 • Wake of Storm Imogen – 6 February 2016 • Major flood incidents occurred in Portreath, Hayle and at Blackwater near Chiverton Cross. The playground at Mousehole Community Primary School flooded • Newquay-Par and Liskeard-Looe railway branch lines closed Events over last 12 months • 10 April 2016 • Strong winds whipped up waves in Penzance, overtopping the Promenade and the railway line at Eastern Green • St Mawes was also badly affected by wave overtopping and flooding from the sea Studies • Mount’s Bay Shoreline Strategy • Hayle Estuary Scoping Study • Par drainage network modelling • Joint project with EA and SWW • Feeds in to StARR Project • Shoreline Management Plan Review Studies • Beach and Dune Management Plans • Constantine Bay • Fistral Beach • Harvey’s Towans • Par Sands • Porthcothan • Porthtowan • Praa Sands • Summerleaze • Widemouth Bay Bids for jointly funded Defra and EU ERDF Projects • St Austell Bay Resilient Regeneration (StARR) • Defra £20M, ERDF £10M • Long Rock Strategic Coastal Improvements • Defra £2.7M, ERDF £1M Working with Environment Agency to develop future projects at: • Bude • Camel Valley • Fowey • Looe • Mousehole • Newlyn • Penzance • Portreath • Wadebridge Devolution • Inaugural meeting of the Strategic Resilience Board took place on 25 March 2016 • The board is made up of: • Officers of Cornwall Council, • The Environment Agency, • South West Water, • The South West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, • The Cornwall Catchment Partnership, • Cornwall Community Flood Forum, • The Local Nature Partnership, • The Local Enterprise Partnership, • Westcountry Rivers Trust and • Emergency Services. Event of Tuesday 13/09/16 • 3 storms in 1 day • Highly isolated • Particularly hit Falmouth & Penryn, Camborne & Redruth • Probably > 100 properties flooded • Probability > 1 in 100 year event Afternoon Evening Night For further information: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/floodrisk.