UK’s most radical flood-alleviation scheme gets under way on Left Bank

17 June 2009

Nottingham’s new Left Bank flood risk-alleviation scheme was launched last week.

Local MP Liz Blackman cut the first piece of turf at the ceremony in Sawley, before construction of the first phase of the £51M scheme begins this month.

The flood-alleviation scheme will be one of the ‘biggest and most complex’ ever built in the UK.

Innes Thomson, the Environment Agency’s area flood and coastal risk manager, said it was a ‘historic day’, as the first links in a chain of flood defences along the River Trent were made.

‘The flood defence challenges are different in each location, but all 27km of the defence must work together to protect the city,’ she added.

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