Flood Activity Update – Sunday 15 January 2023
- 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