Flood Control

(asked on 5th December 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, whether temporary flood barriers, mobile water pumps and incident command vehicles were deployed during Storm Angus.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 8th December 2016

Storm Angus brought widespread heavy rainfall to many parts of the country, particularly across the South West and North East. During the storm the Environment Agency deployed 94m of temporary flood barriers and 2 small mobile water pumps. No incident command vehicles were deployed.

1,095 staff were deployed to respond to the flooding and support affected communities. 139 Flood Warnings and 1 Severe Flood Warning were also issued.

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