Flood Control
(asked on 5th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many mobile pumps the Environment Agency owns.
This question was answered on 13th January 2016
The Environment Agency owns a total of 245 mobile pumping units which can be deployed to respond to flooding incidents.
During the flooding in December 2015, 425 mobile pumping assets owned and held by responding organisations, including the Fire Services and the Environment Agency, were identified as being available to Strategic Coordination Groups (Gold Controls).