19 September 2024
Find out how partnerships between city councils, utility companies and universities can accelerate the adoption of SuDs and blue green solutions to help improve flood resilience.
Living with Water (LWW) is a partnership between Yorkshire Water, Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency and the University of Hull – all of which play a role in managing water in Hull and the East Riding.
As LWW, they are working together to build flood resilience, develop innovative water management systems, and highlight our region as a great place to live, work and visit.
Hull is the second biggest flood risk area in the UK outside of London. This is due to the city bordering two confluent rivers – the River Hull and the River Humber – and its close location to the Humber Estuary and the North Sea. In addition, it sits in a basin of low-lying land below sea level.
The area is at risk of flooding from rising tides in the River Hull and high spring tides from the Humber Estuary, as well as the effects of climate change. Globally, intense storms are becoming more frequent and sea levels around the UK coast are increasing.
Living With Water was created following the floods in 2007 and is a partnership between the four organisations responsible for water management in our region. As a partnership, it aims to explore and test different SuDS/blue green solution to minimise flood risk.
Derringham Aquagreen Project includes the construction of 6 above ground dry attenuation basins in the flood prone area of Derringham, Hull to reduce the risk of property flooding during storm events. In collaboration with Hull University, testing and monitoring equipment has been installed to understand the performance of the SuDS solution to advise on its use in the future.
CIWEM and ICE members and non-members welcome to attend this technical webinar.
Part of the CIWEM Flood Resilience and Adaption, Nature-based Solutions, Catchment Management, and Water Governance series.
Register for 19 September 2024Rachel Glossop
Rachel Glossop is the Flood Risk Planning Manager for Hull City Council, having joined the organisation in June 2014. The role of the Flood Risk Planning Manager is to ensure that the statutory duties of the Lead Local Flood Authority are fulfilled to ensure that the city can face the challenge of flood risk and can continue to thrive and grow.
Prior to this, she had over 20-years’ experience in the water industry both in the private sector in consultancy and public sector at the Environment Agency. The roles included flood risk regulation through the planning and permitting process, working with Defra on policy around surface water flooding and guiding Local Authorities through the funding systems to create capital programmes of investment for flood mitigation and resilience.
Rachel has also been involved in visiting Freetown, Sierra Leone to advise and offer guidance to various government departments on managing flood risk in the city as the city is particularly vulnerable to flooding and the challenges of climate change.
Fiona Booth
Fiona Booth is a civil engineer and Project Leader for Mott MacDonald Bentley. Since joining the organisation in 2016, she has mainly been involved in wastewater infrastructure projects including pumped and gravity networks, producing the civil engineering design elements as well as carrying out project management tasks to ensure the project is delivered to the required programme. She has also had some involvement with clean water, following a year working with in the non-infrastructure team of the Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance.
More recently, she has been working within the Living with Water partnership alongside Yorkshire Water and Hull City Council to develop the design for Derringham Aqua Greens. Her role has involved setting a standard for SUDs designs within Yorkshire, finding areas where efficiencies can be made, so that more blue green solutions can be proposed as alternatives to grey infrastructure and that more SUDs projects can be constructed in future.
This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM and ICE.
Bookings will be taken through ICE. Please contact Joanne Topping at iceyandh@ice.org.uk if you have any difficulties with booking a place or would like to cancel your attendance.
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