Incidents Involving Flooding Sample Clauses

Incidents Involving Flooding. In the case of flooding (a natural event), the Environment Agency will seek to minimise the likelihood and consequence of floods on people, property and infrastructure by the provision of flood warnings and by securing and operating its flood defence assets, including main river watercourses. The Highways Agency relies upon the Environment Agency’s flood warning service for initiating actions at its property at risk of flood damage. It is unlikely that the motorway network will be flooded from fluvial, tidal or coastal flooding. In the rare event that such flooding occurs, the Environment Agency and Highways Agency are to ensure adequate local communications are in place between emergency workforce teams, the Environment Agency Operation Delivery teams and the Highways Agency term contractors. The Environment Agency uses the following flood warning codes to warn the public, media and professional partners. Each warning code has a definition, or ‘strapline’, for use in public facing material. The warning is issued for a defined area (catchment) or multiple areas. The definitions summarise what the impact of flooding is for each code. Key message Timing Online flood risk forecast Be aware. Keep an eye on the weather situation Forecasts of flooding on our website are updated at least once a day Flooding is possible. Be prepared Two hours to two days in advance of flooding Flooding is expected. Immediate action required Half an hour to one day in advance of flooding Severe flooding. Danger to life When flooding poses a significant threat to life and different actions are required Warning no longer in force No further flooding is currently expected for your area Issued when a flood warning is no longer in force Flood guidance statements assess the risk of all potential flood events for fluvial, tidal, coastal and surface water flood risk. The forecast issued provides a 5 day forecast using county boundaries. Assessment of likelihood and impact give overall flood risk. When the Flood Forecasting Centre guidance statement shows a medium risk of possible flooding, our local Environment Agency staff set up a teleconference with professional partners local resilience forum partners and Met Office public weather service advisors. This call is an opportunity to inform local decision makers, discuss the situation and whether to activate emergency plans. The Environment Agency has a power to issue Flood Warnings on main rivers and non-main rivers (also known as ordinary...
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