JUNE 2007 : WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN YORKSHIRE

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Updated September 2008

GA MANCHESTER BRANCH
LECTURE BY ALAN PARKINSON

SEPTEMBER 18TH 2008

HIGH AND DRY: GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS FROM THE SUMMER FLOODS 2007

Go to SLIDESHARE to get the PRESENTATION

 

 

Here's the title slide as a taster...

ANIMOTO MOVIE (alternative version)

High And Dry
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Useful resource: GeoActive 394: "2007 Flooding in England and Wales" - Garrett Nagle

High Tech Flood Warnings - Simon Oakes - "Geography Review" - September 2006

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY REPORT: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/21/eaflood121.xml

Report on flooding failures...has some comments to make on the role of the Environment Agency

The Environment Agency is the government agency charged with flood protection (river and marine) from flooding

The PITT REVIEW is also now available to download.

The GA has done some work with RIDO: the Rotherham Investment and Development Office

The GOOGLE MAP that has been produced is HERE.

Click to enlarge

Hint: If you have Sky, and some major event has happened in a part of the country where you don't live, make sure that you check out the regional news magazines at around 6.30 pm that evening for useful video material...

Added a new YOU TUBE page of videos on the flood... Download them with ZAMZAR for classroom use. There are plenty more of course...

Gorgeous Geography - a nice idea with a Google Earth overlay

http://gorgeousgeography.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/flood-june-2007/

SKY NEWS also did something similar.

A very large selection of YOU TUBE videos is also available - there's a link from Melanie's page above to some of these - I like the one where the police van gets stuck.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6255522.stm - a useful article on Winn Gardens in Sheffield, which featured on the local news...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6254960.stm - cost of floods likely to top £1 billion ! (in fact it was nearer to £3 billion)

Also check out the resources that can be downloaded (and free booklets ordered in bulk if necessary) from the ENVIRONMENT AGENCY page. Remember that when the flood waters recede the trouble doesn't stop.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

The Times: 18/12/07 - "The next time the floods come we've got to be better prepared"

BBC News website: June 2007 - "Flooding takes its toll on farms"

 

There was also a useful book published by the Sheffield Star. I have a copy of that.

"The Great Flood" - Compiled and written by Martin Smith (At Heart Ltd, 2007)

SHEFFIELD FLOODING PAGE - Rob Hindle Poetry

A link to an earlier flood, caused by a very different event...

Check out the poetry samples...

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