The construction phase of this project is now complete.
There may still be updates, so the project will remain here. We are still monitoring the project and will reply to any comments. So if you have any questions please feel free to comment or contact us here.
We are currently undertaking a Stage One Northumbria Intergrated Drainage Partnership (NIDP) study in Ushaw Moor. This involves the collection, collation and analysis of existing flooding data from all sources to define issues and opportunities for integrated working between Northumbrian Water, the Environment Agency and the Local Authority. Stage One allows us to identify all of the flooding issues in a drainage catchment, whether these are sewer flooding, surface water flooding from overland flow or flooding from watercourses and rank them in order of priority based on the number of homes they impact.
The Northumbria Integrated Drainage Partnership (NIDP) is a partnership of Northumbrian Water, the north east councils and Environment Agency, working together to reduce our communities’ risk of flooding from all sources. The partnership is managed by a governance body with representative of all the RMAs and in order to meet the wider objectives of the group have developed high level guidance and direction by:
Agreeing and developing a strategic level risk based prioritisation methodology for the identification of high risk drainage areas
Promoting implementation of the prioritisation methodology to direct investment to the most needed areas
Supporting and facilitating the timely sharing of data and information between parties for the purposes of understanding and managing integrated flood risk
Managing the application of the methodology by sharing knowledge and experience
Overseeing the delivery of detailed studies at high risk locations as identified in the earlier prioritisation location
Ensuring that suitable mechanisms are in place to communicate approach with other parties working on flood risk
Championing the approach of first understanding the ‘right thing to do’ - ahead of the preference of any single organisation.
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