Newcastle floods case study
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- Created on: 22-03-19 16:42
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- Newcastle floods- November 2012
- Economic effects
- Businesses closed and couldn't open for a while due to disruption and damage
- Rail network/metro came to a halt
- Millions of pounds of damage repair needed
- Metro centre and central station flooded
- Environmental effects
- Landslides blocked East Coast and West Coast mainlines
- contaminated river water
- Trees carried away damaging local ecosystems
- Management strategies
- review of gully cleaning
- Volunteer warden scheme
- £3 million spent on strengthening flood defences
- Reponses
- clean up operation days after
- engineers repair damage to east coast mainline
- replacement bus services
- Social effects
- Homes flooded
- Health risk as river water contaminated with sewage
- 23,000 properties left without electricity
- Economic effects
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