Supporting communities to build flood and coastal resilience from source to sea
Upper Catchment
Using innovative measures to keep water on the land longer and slow the flow down through the hydraulic catchment to urban areas.
The upper catchments within the project area are a mixture of woodland and farmland. Across the Stanford-le-Hope, Shoebury and Prittlewell areas we aim to use land management measures such as leaky dams, contour ploughing, tree planting and innovative wet verge systems to hold water upstream for longer and reduce the volumes and flow rates of water moving down through the hydraulic catchment thereby improving flood resilience downstream in urban areas.
Capturing, storing, treating and re-using rainwater to improve flood resilience and reduce demand on our mains water supply.
To improve flood resileince in the urban middle catchments of Stanford-le-Hope, Prittlewell and Shoebury we will use various rainwater harvesting solutions to capture rainwater and after treating using NbS, store the water for re-use during periods of drought.
Managing the flow, high and low!
Innovative nature-based solutions to improve coastal resilience and improve water quality.
Along the coastlines of Southend and Thurrock, saltmarsh regeneration, floating barriers and sea wall enhancements will help protect historic landfills from erosion.
