Buckinghamshire is to get a major chunk of government funding to spend on major projects to prevent and alleviate flooding incidents caused by groundwater flooding.
It follows a successful bid by Buckinghamshire Council and partners for a multi-million pound fund for a six-year project called Groundwater Resilience & Community Engagements - GRACE. The scheme aims to transform how flooding from groundwater is managed and mitigated by both authorities and communities.
Groundwater flooding is the main reason for flooding in the chalk regions in the south of the county and the project aims to tackle it through techniques like innovative monitoring using sensors in the road gullies, modelling, mapping plus new warning systems and supporting community action – all of which are designed to lessen the impact of groundwater flooding in the future.
One of the most exciting features of the project is a new app, which will warn local communities about flood risks and which areas are in danger of flooding. Buckinghamshire Council is working on the 'GRACE' project with numerous partners across the Chilterns and Berkshire Downs areas.
Ian Thompson, Buckinghamshire Council's Corporate Director for Planning, Growth and Sustainability said: "We've seen in these last few months just how terrible the impact of flooding can be and we seize every opportunity we can to find ways of protecting our communities from flooding, whatever the cause.
“This is a long-term scheme which tackles groundwater flooding in the Chilterns from a variety of angles, together all aimed at ultimately building resilience to lessen the impact, through stopping flooding in the first place, and ensuring effective warning systems are in place when and where there is a risk."
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