Among the methods being used will be the installation of natural flood defences, including ‘leaky barriers’, which the Environment Agency said would protect homes in Clitheroe, Lancashire.<\/p>\n
The Ribble Rivers Trust which had installed the barriers, said they helped to slow and delay flooding in a more natural way than traditional flood defences.<\/p>\n
Jack Spees, CEO said there were three natural flood risk management schemes in Lancashire, helping to protect propertes in Clitheroe, Darwen and Wrae Green, all funded by the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n
Spees said: “In Darwen, we worked with Lancashire Wildlife Trust to fund peat restoration to keep the rain that falls there as long as possible. <\/p>\n
“We’ve done some tree planting too – they help water to infiltrate the soil and makes the surface of the ground rougher so it slows water flow”. <\/p>\n
He also said his team had installed several attenuation ponds at Blacksnape playing fields in Darwen which captured rainwater.<\/p>\n
“With the predicted impact of climate change, flood risk is set to worsen, particulary in these locations”, Spees said.<\/p>\n
The introduction of natural flood defences “complements” traditional flood defences, like concrete walls, to help mitigate flooding whilst also benefitting the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the methods being used will be the installation of natural flood defences, including ‘leaky barriers’, which the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-480772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}