Post by rosegriffin on Nov 27, 2014 9:25:35 GMT
I realise our earlier communication was not clear enough. Please see letter to the editor of the Echo below which I believe clarifies the current flood recording project.
"Amazingly, despite warnings and closures by the police and reports on Essex Radio, the Environment Agency has said that it has been unaware of any flooding in Pound Lane and Burnt Mills Road, until reported at the Flood Risk Action Group (FRAG). The Bowers Gifford & North Benfleet Residents Association are members of the FRAG set up by neighbouring Rawreth and attended by groups from surrounding areas. A fortnight ago the group attended a meeting arranged by the Flood Forum, a national charity, which was attended by local authorities within the areas forming the FRAG, plus Anglian Water and the Environment Agency. The only absentee was Essex Highways.
The good news is that although communication between the various agencies has not been as good as it should have been in the past we are now moving forward on a positive note.. FRAG members will be given one specific location to which to report our local flooding issues. If you have reported a flood in the Bowers Gifford or North Benfleet area in the past or need to do so in the future please copy the details to ChairResidentsAssociation@outlook.com or phone 0780 804 1825. Please take photographs and email them to us.
This procedure does not promise any short term action, and should not deter residents reporting flooding issues to the agencies to whom they would normally report them. However, it will enable a database to be set up and provide proof of the date that a flood has been reported and to whom. We will be following up reported issues with the agencies to ascertain what long term action is being considered."
"Amazingly, despite warnings and closures by the police and reports on Essex Radio, the Environment Agency has said that it has been unaware of any flooding in Pound Lane and Burnt Mills Road, until reported at the Flood Risk Action Group (FRAG). The Bowers Gifford & North Benfleet Residents Association are members of the FRAG set up by neighbouring Rawreth and attended by groups from surrounding areas. A fortnight ago the group attended a meeting arranged by the Flood Forum, a national charity, which was attended by local authorities within the areas forming the FRAG, plus Anglian Water and the Environment Agency. The only absentee was Essex Highways.
The good news is that although communication between the various agencies has not been as good as it should have been in the past we are now moving forward on a positive note.. FRAG members will be given one specific location to which to report our local flooding issues. If you have reported a flood in the Bowers Gifford or North Benfleet area in the past or need to do so in the future please copy the details to ChairResidentsAssociation@outlook.com or phone 0780 804 1825. Please take photographs and email them to us.
This procedure does not promise any short term action, and should not deter residents reporting flooding issues to the agencies to whom they would normally report them. However, it will enable a database to be set up and provide proof of the date that a flood has been reported and to whom. We will be following up reported issues with the agencies to ascertain what long term action is being considered."