UK 2007 Tewkesbury floods
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- Created on: 03-04-16 17:26
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- UK floods 2007- Tewkesbury
- causes
- physical
- rivers Severn and Avon meet in the town centre
- both rivers burst their banks
- low pressure system in July 2007 over England and Wales
- wettest July since records began
- little sunshine led to low evaporation levels
- soils were already saturated due to high rainfall in previous months
- rivers Severn and Avon meet in the town centre
- low pressure in france (callais) moved northwards brinign warm continental air over england,
- when combined with cool air it created instability
- human
- there are no flood defences in Tewkesbury
- lots of the flood plains had been built on
- physical
- effects
- social
- 13 lives lost
- 50,000 homes affected
- 850 families needed to stay in caravans
- 140,000 had no water supply
- 50,000 properties without power for 48 hours
- economic impacts
- cost councils £140 mil
- total cost to UK economy is £3.2 billion
- 9,000 businesses affected
- more than 180,000 insurance claims
- flood water contained sewage and crops destroyed
- environmental
- habitats destroyed
- social
- responses
- good education in UK about how to act and respond in situation of flood/disaster
- met office and local council suplly weather information
- emergancy services well trained aqnd respond quickly
- RAF helicopters used to rescue stranded people
- when water cut off, lots of bottled water supllied
- causes
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