Flood control: £1M budget hike to cut risk

30 January 2008

The Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee has agreed to raise its flood risk-management budget to £10M, up from £9M in 2006/07.

The money will come from a levy on councils, approved unanimously by local authority representatives on the committee. The body decided to increase funding for important local projects which will not attract resources from the national flood fund, but are important to those living in the River Thames catchment.

The projects being supported include flood-alleviation schemes and the improvement of smaller, but critical watercourses, for which the responsibility has recently been transferred to the Environment Agency.

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