Pleasure to be able to speak today at Fenland SOIL Conference in Ely about #internaldrainageboards. Thinking about the water level management challenges & opportunities for our lowland landscape & peat soils. IDBs watercourse networks & assets are a key part in retaining & distributing water safely

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📢Floods Minister's announcement at ADA Conference
🇪🇸Catastrophic floods in Valencia
🦺Reservoir safety update
💦New Broads pump station
🌡️Fens Climate Risk Assessment
🦫Beaver training
📏PeatCam LAPSIP project

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We'll be holding our third annual Environment Day in the heart of the Fens on Weds 05 Feb 2025. Sponsored by Xylem the day is aimed at those who play a role in managing, maintaining, and governing safe water levels and flood risk infrastructure across our lowland water landscapes. 1/2

Many #internaldrainageboards officers here with LAPSIP small infrastructure pilots to retain water safely to conserve our lowland peat soils.
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Very grateful to our trainers and guides from Natural England, Environment Agency, and River Stour IDB. We learnt so much & enjoyed sharing our learning & insights about benefits, challenges & mitigations for working alongside nature's engineers around our water infrastructure 2/2

Fantastic couple of days in East Kent with environment officers of #internaldrainageboards from across England and the Canal & Rivers Trust learning about beavers ecology and interaction with lowland & embarked water management infrastructure. 1/2

Our concluding speaker at #ADAConf24 was Michael Sly MBE chair of North Level Internal Drainage Board who gave inspiration for gripping the climatic challenge facing our lowlands and ensuring we don't simply study the challenges we face but get on with delivering with regional and local solutions.

Pleased to welcome Emma Hardy Minister for Water & Flooding at Defra as our opening keynote speaker at the ADA Flood & Water Conference 2024 setting out Government's intention for reform & investment across themes of water & resilience to flooding. Reviewing investment in flood defences #ADAConf24

Fantastic crowd gathering for the ADA Flood & Water Conference 2024 #ADAConf24 sponsored by Wilkin Chapman Solicitors and Balfour Beatty

Good morning from the ADA team, today's the day for the ADA Flood & Water Conference 2024 #ADAConf24 in Westminster London. Sponsored by Wilkin Chapman LLP and Balfour Beatty. We look forward to meeting over 200 delegates from across the #flood risk & #waterlevelmanagement sector in the UK