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.
