Water pumped from plain to halt Adur valley flooding

9:10am Wednesday 20th March 2013 in News

Water is being pumped from a flood plain into a river as part of plans to protect householders from flooding.

The operation to transfer water from the Lancing Brooks outfall into the River Adur at high tide began last week.

The area, near the Dogs Trust centre in Brighton Road, Shoreham, drains a large ditch network around Shoreham Airport and north Lancing.

But experts want to see if there are ways it can improve the situation when the land would normally be locked by the tide.

It is part of West Sussex County Council’s Operation Watershed, an £8.25m initiative to combat problems caused by adverse weather conditions.

While the pumping is taking place, the footpath between Adur Recreation Ground and Brighton Road will be temporarily closed.

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Comments(2)

rolivan says...
4:46pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Is this the area near to where The new Training Academy is going and people wanted it for Residential use?

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Can this be says...
5:54pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Does this article make any sense? Is it a pumping trial to see the effect, or a permanent installation, or what? Or have I just misunderstood?

Who permitted all that filling on the land to the NW of ShorehamAirport near the A27 - golf course? - which would have stored water and thereby protected properties?

Logic of all this beats me.

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