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The Jubilee River is an artificial flood-relief channel in southern England. It is 11.6 km (7.2 mi) long [ 1 ] and is on average 45 metres (148 feet) wide. [ 2 ] It was constructed in the late 1990s and early 2000s to take overflow from the River Thames and so alleviate flooding to areas in and around the towns of Maidenhead , Windsor , and ...
The flood plain between Cookham and Windsor has the remains of many old waterways, serving over time as boundaries, drainage channels, mill leats and in parts, for navigation. The waterways that still run through Maidenhead town centre were in the past much larger than today, as the scale of the older structures over the channels demonstrates.
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 ...
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.
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: 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
Banbury Reservoir is located at Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is one of the storage reservoirs [1] of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain in the ...
In total, 91 flood warnings and 237 flood alerts were issued by the Environment Agency. [98] In many areas, more than 50 mm (2.0 in) of rain fell in less than 36 hours. [99] Flooding caused widespread travel disruption during the pre-Christmas rush, which is traditionally the busiest time of year for public transport in the United Kingdom. [100]