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The floods came at a politically delicate time for the UK as its coalition government reneged on a long-held pledge to protect flood defences from government imposed spending cuts. This included a £100,000,000 plan to protect Leeds, [37] though the £14,250,000 Banbury flood prevention scheme would continue. [50]
Newmans Sluices on the River Lee Flood Relief Channel, pictured on a day of strong water flow. The Lee Flood Relief Channel (FRC) is located in the Lea Valley and flows between Ware, Hertfordshire, and Stratford, east London. Work started on the channel in 1947 following major flooding and it was fully operational by 1976.
Banbury United Football Club is a football club based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, ... A new flood defence scheme was completed in 2012 to protect the stadium, the local ...
Before skirting the eastern boundary of the King George V Reservoir, the river is joined by the River Lee Flood Relief Channel. The man-made, steep, concrete-banked water flows under Lea Valley Road ( A110 road ), before forming a boundary with the William Girling Reservoir .
Banbury: Lea Diversion & Thames-Lee tunnel Pumped 8.5 2,950 Lockwood: Lea Diversion & Thames-Lee tunnel Pumped 10.4 2,500 High Maynard: Lee Diversion, Walthamstow No. 4, East Warwick Gravity-fed 5.8 680 Low Maynard: High Maynard Gravity-fed 3.0 150 Walthamstow No. 4 High Maynard, Walthamstow No. 5 Gravity-fed 5.8 590 Walthamstow No. 5
Clifton, Rawcliffe and Poppleton ings are temporary storage area (washland scheme [1]) for water that flows down the River Ouse in York, England.. Approximately 2,300,000 cubic metres (81,000,000 cu ft) [2] of water is able to be stored here which lowers the flood level by about 150 mm (5.9 in) in the city.
Loch Laggan and Loch Treig - both part of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme; Loch Monar - part of the Strathfarrar hydroelectric scheme; Loch Quoich and Loch Garry - both part of the Glen Garry hydroelectric scheme; Loch Loyne and Loch Cluanie - both part of the Glen Moriston hydroelectric scheme; Loch Mullardoch - part of the Glen Affric ...
A series of large floods occurred in parts of the United Kingdom during the summer of 2007. The worst of the flooding occurred across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland on 14 June; East Yorkshire and the Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, the Midlands, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire on 25 June; and Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and ...