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Flooding

The Birmingham Resilience Group has arrangements in place to monitor and respond to flooding in Birmingham. Birmingham City Council and the Environment Agency have worked closely with flood-affected communities to support the development of local community flood warning plans.

Flooding can pose a serious hazard to lives and property. By taking simple precautions you can minimise the damage caused by flooding. The Environment Agency ‘Floodline Warnings Direct’ service offers flood warnings for England and Wales. This service allows residents to receive flood warnings relevant to their location. Warnings can be sent 24 hours a day to email addresses, mobile phones (as an SMS text message), voice message (to a landline telephone), fax or pager. In addition, a ‘Floodline’ telephone service can be accessed day or night for real-time flood warnings and advice.

FLOODLINE 0845 988 1188

The Environment Agency are now automatically signing up over 500,000 households and businesses that are in areas at risk from flooding from rivers to receive their free flood warnings.  See the following link for more information on this:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/38289.aspx

The Environment Agency also offers practical advice for coping with floods, and minimising the damage that flood water can cause. Such as:

For more information please visit www.environment-agency.gov.uk

In addition to the measures below, a range of practical hints and tips relating to what to do before, during and after a flood are provided by the Environment Agency.

Environment Agency Advice

The Environment Agency’s three steps to take to prepare for flooding:

  1. Visit the Environment Agency website or call their 24 hour Floodline on 0845 988 1188 to find out if you are at risk of flooding.
  2. Find out if flood warnings are available in your area.
  3. Make sure you understand the flood warning codes so you know what to do when a flood warning is issued.

For information on preparing emergency kits, please follow this link to the relevant section on this website:

http://www.birminghamprepared.gov.uk/advice/advice-for-communities/advice-in-the-home/

Download our flood advice leaflet – Flood Advice Leaflet (Final_V1.0) (PDF)