Flood Activity Update – Sunday 15 January 2023

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  • Weather
  • Much improved position – No major rain events or expected warnings
  • Colder conditions moving in from Monday and up to Thursday – Will bring frost and icy conditions
  • From Thursday milder conditions and some rain over Wales – Not significant 5-10mm
  • Rivers – Severn
  • 17 warnings / 4 alerts
  • Bewdley peaked at 4.8m 02:00hrs on Sunday morning – This will maintain into this evening – A steady prolonged retreat predicted
  • EA team will be meeting to review plans for scheduled barrier removals – Nothing agreed at present
  • Operational Deployment
  • No change to previously noted updates – B194 (Switchback) still closed
  • Tactical Command
  • No SCG forum stood up – Changes to Herefordshire & Shropshire TCG’s
  • SB noted concerns on social media at Bewdley around: Water egress behind Beales Corner / EA contact / EA messaging around barrier being compromised
  • Some issues created following water being pumped from properties into drains creating secondary surface flooding
  • Some issue with EA and comms evident – Will need to get picked up at event de-brief stage
  • EA – CIO’s deployed – queried at Bewdley
  • Comms – Can we focus on freezing temperatures / retreating river conditions
  • Data collection for flooded properties to focus on: Domestic Properties (internal flooding over external flooding) Business Properties (internal flooding over external flooding)
  • Bronze Cells – Still operational
  • TCG planned for 11:00am Monday
  • Major Incident – Not met
  • Recovery Phase to be established next week – Normally led by Districts but will be chaired by WCC – Districts to feed in attendees