Worried about flooding? Visit the Floodmobile!

RAIN project invites East Hunsbury residents to discuss flood risk and resilience on 27 March

A‘Floodmobile’ vehicle is visiting East Hunsbury as part of a free community event, which invites local residents to find out more about flood risk and resilience.

The event, which is being hosted by the Resilience And Innovation Northants (RAIN) project, is an opportunity to learn what can be done to plan ahead and make adaptations to your home, to prepare for future flood risk.

The Floodmobile is packed with more than 50 examples of practical flood resilience measures. RAIN’s flood resilience experts will be happy to answer questions and show how the products work.

The event is being held in the Abbey Centre on Monday 27 March, between 2pm-6pm.

Alan Ryan from the West Northants Flood and Water Team: “With climate change upon us, we must get ready for the unavoidable impacts of flooding by adapting and helping communities to become more resilient.

“Our aim is to work with the people of East Hunsbury to embrace a broad range of resilience actions to better protect and prepare against flooding.

A visit to the Floodmobile is worth a visit and we look forward to meeting as many residents as possible.”

Who Is RAIN?

RAIN is a new flood innovation and resilience project that is supporting communities across the Wootton Brook and Harpers Brook catchments of Northamptonshire.

Funded by Defra as part of the Flood and Coastal Innovation Programmes, and managed by the Environment Agency, Resilience And Innovation Northants (RAIN) is one of 25 local authorityled flood resilience projects, which is focused on developing, testing and implementing innovative flood risk solutions for locations deemed at risk of flooding.

Floodmobile Roadshow

The Floodmobile will be visiting other communities in our project catchments as part of a roadshow tour, with East Hunsbury being the first stop. To find more details visit https://www.facebook.com/RAINnorthants or email RAIN@westnorthants.gov.uk

Do you know if your home is at risk of flooding? The Environment Agency has a free Flood Warning Service that you can sign up to and receive Flood Warnings in advance of any river flooding expected to affect properties. You can go online here www.gov.uk/sign-up-for-flood-warnings to check if you can sign up to the Flood Warning Service or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188. You can also view current flood warnings issued and monitor local river levels here www.gov.uk/check-flooding. Visit https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/ plan-ahead-for-flooding to find information on what to do to prepare for flooding, such as creating a personal flood plan.