Cumbria Flooding
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- Created on: 20-05-18 11:49
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- Cumbria Flooding
- Background
- Average rainfall in the UK ranges from 700mm to 2500mm
- Heaviest rainfall recorded in UK fell on Cumbria in northern in 2009
- Cause was a very deep Atlantic depression moving north eastwards over Scotland and northern England
- Causes
- Extreme Rainfall
- Cumbria had already had a months worth of average rainfall before hand
- Soil was already wet - new rainfall could not soak in
- By November 20th, the river derwent was ten metres wider
- Water flowed 25 times higher
- Social Impacts
- Police Officer was killed
- Many more people were injured
- 1500 homes were flooded
- River contaminated with sewage- health risks
- Economic Impacts
- Regional economy instantly hit and many businesses closed
- Tourism and agriculture- hiking, farmer will move animals
- Did not open until long afterward
- Debris transported by river destroyed 6 important regional bridges
- Environmental Impacts
- Water erosion by River Derwent triggered landslides
- River tore loose and carried away hundreds of trees, damaging local ecosystems and habitats
- How can management strategies reduce risk?
- Climate change can cause these events to become more common
- Flood defences
- Mobile wall was built- rises when needed and disappears from view
- The Environment Agency - warnings
- Background
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