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The document outlines strategies for reducing flooding through various flood schemes and defenses, emphasizing the importance of understanding catchments and flood resilience. It discusses different types of flood defenses, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Property Flood Resilience (PFR), which help manage flood risks and protect properties. The lesson concludes with a recap of key concepts and a homework assignment encouraging practical application of the learned material.

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FT-Q-C47-Lesson-10-Part-1-Reducing-Flooding

The document outlines strategies for reducing flooding through various flood schemes and defenses, emphasizing the importance of understanding catchments and flood resilience. It discusses different types of flood defenses, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Property Flood Resilience (PFR), which help manage flood risks and protect properties. The lesson concludes with a recap of key concepts and a homework assignment encouraging practical application of the learned material.

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Reducing Flooding (Part 1)

Lesson aim:
• To understand how we can reduce flooding through
the catchment using flood schemes

Lesson objectives:
• Learn what flood resilience is and the different types
• Introduce different types of flood defences
• Think of ways we can stop or reduce flooding

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Recap…
What is a catchment?
A catchment is an area of land which leads each drop of
rain that falls within it, towards the same river.
Can you remember the three ‘courses’ of a river?
1. Upper course
2. Middle course
3. Lower course
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Recap…
Who manages the risk of flooding?
Environment Agency – Main rivers, the sea and reservoirs

Water Companies – Sewer flooding and blockages

Local Council or
County Council – Surface water flooding

Now lets take a closer looks at how this is done…


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Reducing Flooding
Natural flood
management

Do you know Flood schemes

any ways we
can reduce Sustainable Drainage
Only flush the 3 p’s

flooding?
Systems (SuDS)
Property Flood
Resilience (PFR)

Preparing for flooding &


creating community groups

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Protecting Your Property
Can you spot the difference between these two houses?
Which one would be more prepared for flooding?

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Protecting Your Property

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Protecting Your Property
Property Flood Resilience (PFR) = Changes
people can make to their property so that it can cope
better when it floods

Resistance and Resilience


• Resistance = stops water coming in
• Resilience = reduces flood damage &
makes recovery faster
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Protecting Your Property

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)


SuDS catch rain to stop it from adding to surface water,
entering drains and adding to the risk of flooding!

As well as reducing flood risk they have lots of other


benefits such as creating habitats for wildlife and soaking
up carbon dioxide (CO2). Image: The Flood Hub

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Protecting Your Property
Can you guess which defences are resistance, which are resilience, and which are SuDS?
Resistance = stops
water coming in

Resilience = reduces
flood damage &
makes recovery faster

SuDS = catch and


store rainwater

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Protecting Your Property
Let’s take a closer look at some defences

Image: The Flood Hub Image: Lakeside Flood Solutions Image: The Flood Hub

Flood door Flood barrier Automatic airbrick Hard flooring

Image: The Flood Hub Image: The Flood Hub


Image: Domestic flood control 2011 - water reactive sandbag
by Gravitas International Ltd is licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kitchen made from
Alternative sandbags Raised electric sockets
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Flood Schemes
What do flood schemes do?
Flood schemes are built to
protect big parts of towns and
villages from flooding!

They are usually made up of


walls, embankments, and
flood storage areas.
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Types of Flood Defences

Flood walls Embankments Storage areas


Built along the river to stop floodwater Grassy hills or slopes which stop Floodwater is directed out of a river
from rivers reaching into towns floodwater from rivers reaching houses onto empty land to be stored

Pumps Temporary flood barriers Coastal defences


These take water from a place that is flooding Put up in communities before flooding This can be flood walls or changes to the
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Recap of Lesson

• What does property flood Stops or reduces the amount of water


getting into your home and damaging
resilience do?...
things

• What do SuDS do?... Catch rainwater and stop it from


flowing over roads and into drains
• What do flood schemes Protect big parts of towns and villages
and defences do?... from flooding

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Homework
Protect your home from flooding
Using what we’ve learnt in this lesson, have a look
around your house and answer the questions on the
sheet.

• Where could flood water get in?


• What defences could you use to stop flood water
getting in?
• Do you think a flood scheme would help to stop your
home from flooding? If so, how?

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