NCE Floods & Water Management Bill Round Table
NCE has teamed up with Hydro International to deliver a round table debate on the Floods & Water Management Bill. Watch the highlights here.
Round Table: news
Fears over Floods Bill's Suds loophole
Engineers warned this week that new national standards for sustainable drainage systems would be used by developers to avoid installing them in projects.
Round Table debate: Introduction
On 10 September at the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), NCE and Hydro International brought together a panel of key experts for a Round Table debate on the Floods & Water Management Bill.
Watch: NCE/Hydro flooding roundtable
Round Table: the debate reviewed
NCE/Hydro round table: Flood of ideas
Last week NCE and Hydro International organised a round table discussion in London to influence forthcoming flooding legislation. Bernadette Redfern reports.
Round Table panel members
Chair: Alastair Moseley, CIWEM and WSP Group
Alastair Moseley is the president of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
Professor Richard Ashley, Sheffield University
Richard Ashley is Professor of Urban Water at Sheffield University and MD of the Pennine Water Group.
David Rooke, Environment Agency
David Rooke is the Environment Agency’s head of strategy and engagement within the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate.
Vicky Dawe, Defra
Vicky Dawe is the head of the Non-Agricultural Diffuse Water Pollution Team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Jeremy Jones, JRJ Consulting
Jeremy Jones is an independent consulting engineer and advisor to regulators, water companies and industry.
Alex Stephenson, Hydro International
Alex Stephenson is director of Hydro International’s Stormwater Division.
Terry Fuller, CIWEM
Terry Fuller is chair of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) River and Coastal Group.
Gordon Hunt, Oxfordshire County Council
Gordon Hunt is manager of the Drainage Team at Oxfordshire County Council which undertakes the county’s capital drainage programme.
Floods Bill news
UK's largest inland flood defence scheme opens in Nottingham
New environment secretary Owen Paterson has opened the UK’s largest inland flood defence scheme - the Nottingham Left Bank Flood Alleviation Scheme.
Welsh village evacuated amid dam breach fears
North Wales Police officers today evacuated residents from the village of Pennal, near Machynlleth in Powys following a breach in the dam of a local reservoir.
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Flooding experts frustrated at Pitt progress
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Duke bemoans lack of floods forward planning
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Flood prevention scheme unveiled for Mythe Farm in Tewkesbury
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MPs criticise government over lack of clarity on flood defence funding
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Consultation on controversial reservoir classification system to end next month
