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Modelling catchment wide natural flood management interventions | WEBINAR

This webinar reviewed models of catchment-wide natural flood management interventions to enable quantification of in-town flood attenuation benefits using the case study of the Belford Natural Flood Management scheme. Belford is a village in Northumberland, situated a few miles from the northeast coast of England near Berwick-upon Tweed and is surrounded by rich pastoral farmland. During the 2000s the village suffered serious flooding causing significant damage to properties. In 2007 researchers from Newcastle University, the Environment Agency and local landowners started constructing numerous natural flood management interventions in the catchment upstream of Belford to mitigate against future flooding incidents. The scheme included the installation of runoff attenuation features, (RAFs) constructed within the catchment, together with leaky barriers, vegetated buffer strips and other NFM interventions. Following their installation, the catchment has been monitored to evaluate the impact of the scheme during a range of storm events on intercepting slowing and storing floodwaters. This webinar was held on the 27th of January 2022.