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Northumbria Groundwater Flooding Project

Meeting: 14/12/2021 - Cabinet (Item 103)

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Report of the Strategic Director, Economy, Innovation and Growth

 

Minutes:

Consideration has been given to the award of a Department of Food and Rural Affairs grant under the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme, to the Council in its capacity as a Lead Local Flood Authority, to work in partnership to map groundwater flood risk, to develop groundwater flood risk maps and to consider a groundwater flood risk warning system for Gateshead and the surrounding area. 

 

 

 

RESOLVED -

(i)

That acceptance of the grant as detailed in the report be approved

 

 

 

 

(ii)

That approval be given for the Council’s Highway and Flood Risk Management Team, who undertake the Council’s Lead Local Flood Authority duties, to manage the project.

 

 

 

The above decisions have been made for the following reasons:

 

 

 

 

(A)

To map groundwater flood risk in Gateshead.

 

 

 

 

(B)

To inform future flood risk management schemes, to inform strategic planning and development policy and to mitigate against climate change groundwater flood risk.

 


 

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