Managing a flood event

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1 Managing a flood event Keith Little Portfolio Holder Highways and Transport

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3 500,000 residents One county council Six district councils Two National Park Authorities Six NHS organisations 250+ parish and town councils Six MPs 900+ elected officials (including parish and town councillors)

4 Overview

5 Timeline All resources on alert Activated Emergency Control Centres Strategic Command Group held No wide scale flooding November 1-6 December Storm Desmond Major incident Wide scale flooding Significant use of mutual aid, military aid and voluntary organisations Full 24x7 Strategic Command Group Full Strategic Command Group with organisations fully responding No wide scale flooding December December Storm Frank Full Strategic Command Group with organisations fully responding No wide scale flooding Storm Abigail Storm Eva

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7 Worst affected area North Yorkshire 819 Lancashire 1366 Greater Manchester 2471 West Yorkshire 6762 Cumbria 7790

8 Flimby Carlisle Cockermouth Pooley Bridge A592 Keswick A591 Appleby Kendal

9 Highways key facts 3 bridges washed away Major structural failures to A591, A592 and A Roads closed due to flooding included A590 A66 was closed for some time

10 Infrastructure key facts Over 7000 properties flooded 18,132 properties without power in the immediate aftermath One man lost his life in Kendal One care home flooded and evacuated 60 schools affected 4 closed long term 3000 children not attending school at the end of term 17 nurseries and 6 childminders affected Environmental contamination issues at 2 locations

11 Infrastructure key facts West Coast main line and Carlisle Newcastle line closed until end of January Carlisle Settle Line still closed at Appleby 51 CCC buildings affected by flood water

12 Acute

13 Acute Prevent loss of life 9 days in acute Highways mobilised 27 Fire Services Military to recce priority bridges Military/CCC cleared A591 3 rd party inspection of network

14 Recovery

15 Recovery Gold, Silver, Bronze remains. Cobra Ministerial Recovery Group. Strategic Recovery Group.

16 Objectives Working across multiple agencies to ensure: Local communities are engaged, consulted and supported All infrastructure, assets and highways are repaired or enhanced The provision of education and learning is maintained Business and economic recovery, confidence and support The health, wellbeing and housing needs of communities are met Community needs are matched to offers of support Appropriate governance, communications, resource and financial management arrangements are in place Use of Flood Action Groups established over a number of years

17 Communications speed is everything

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19 Everybody became an expert

20 Our A591 video was watched by over 50,000 people

21 Embracing social media

22 Dive inspection video goes viral 30,000 people watch it in 48 hours

23 This was the 9th most engaging Tweet from UK Government accounts on 4 January Within its first day this tweet reached a potential 38,995 people

24 Within its first day this tweet reached a potential 71,810 people This was the 5th most engaging Tweet from UK Government accounts on 29 Dec

25 Bridges: Acute Recovery Keeping Cumbria Moving All 1600 initial bridge inspections completed. Circa 600 second phase bridge inspections completed. 23 damaged road bridges repaired and re-opened. 8 damaged footbridges repaired and re-opened. 3 temporary bridge constructed and opened. 6 bridges identified as requiring complete reconstruction. 200 bridges identified as in need of some form of repair.

26 Acute Recovery Getting Back to School Two full temporary schools built by start of January term A591 school link delivered for start of January term All schools reopened by 11 January.

27 Bridges Diversions ranging from 3 miles to 69 miles Temporary road bridge at Pooley Bridge was in place by Easter Engagement with local communities on solutions Works determined so far on circa 500 road bridges and 11 foot bridges, further investigations will expand this programme Falling water levels allowed more detailed survey work which opened some bridges and closed others

28 Pooley Bridge

29 Pooley Bridge

30 A591 5 km of carriageway affected, 15 landslips and 70m section of road collapsed Actions in first 2 weeks included 5,000 tonnes debris cleared and emergency tree clearance by County Council and Military Aerial surveys and topographical, geotechnical, slope stability and ground investigation undertaken by CCC Further damage as a result of Storm Frank Three phases leading to permanent solution Phase 1 reconnecting the communities, phase 2 temporary road, phase 3 complete and full reinstatement delivered by Highways England

31 Collaboration Army District Councils LDNPA Highways England United Utilities Stagecoach Local Businesses Communities

32 New technology - mapping

33 New technology

34 Working together

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36 National assets and resources

37 Communities

38 Future proofing

39 Building additional resilience

40 It has been a privilege working with you and your team over the past 10 days. Your organisation is agile and highly effective at dealing with crisis of this magnitude Commanding Officer 21 Engineer Regiment