Good morning.

My name is Loren Jennings and I am a project manager at Northumbrian Water.  I'm assisting Elaine with this project, and I wanted to give you an update.

Before our lives were interrupted by Covid, we did manage to complete the Stage 1 which identified areas of integrated flood risk.  This means there was risk of flooding from not just sewers or drains, but also watercourses or surface water runoff.  The areas we will be advancing into Stage 2 are:

• Ridingmill Burn (Riding Mill)
• Stocksfield Burn (Stocksfield)

If you live in these areas and wanted to share your experiences with flooding, or just give us information which could help our study, it would be very welcome.  You can also ask me questions here by replying to this update!

Loren

Hi, 

I'm Elaine Smith, NWL project Manager for our Corbridge, Riding Mill and Stocksfield Study. We're working together with the Environment Agency and Northumberland County Council to reduce flood risk in local communities.

As part of our information gathering stage we will have a team of surveyors from Atlantic Geomatics out and about in Stocksfield and Riding Mill starting from Monday 25th November. They will be carrying out manhole surveys and surveying cross sections of the local watercourses so that we can update and improve our hydraulic model of the local area.

I will be out in Riding Mill and Stocksfield on Monday 18th November, hopefully to meet some of the local residents and to let you know more about our study.

If you wish to get in touch directly you can register to comment on this community portal page or contact us by telephone via the NWL Customer Contact Centre on 0345 717 1100

Elaine