Surface water flooding

Website: www.defra.gov.uk

• planning for national flood emergencies
• grant aid for land drainage works
• funding EA flood management activities

Website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency

• ensuring the maintenance of main rivers
• monitoring and forecasting river levels
• providing and operating flood warning systems
• Category One Responder to local and national emergencies
• lead authority for flood risk management in England and Wales for main rivers.

Website: www.norfolk.gov.uk

• the lead Local Flood Authority - co-ordinates local flood risk management
• highways drainage
• ditches and balancing ponds on NCC land, also responsible for bridges and culverted watercourses under the highway
• Category One Responder to local and national emergencies
• enforcing maintenance of land drainage by riparian owners where the highway is affected
• road closures

Website: www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk

• ditches and balancing ponds on Borough owned land
• Category One Responder to local and national emergencies
• providing temporary accommodation in an emergency

Website: www.norfolkprepared.gov.uk

• brings together Category One and Two responders, plus supporting agencies to plan for, respond to and recover from to emergencies in Norfolk
• publishes the Community Risk Register for Norfolk
• provides emergency preparedness advice

Website: www.anglianwater.co.uk

• flooding from public foul, combined and surface water sewers
• flooding from burst water supply pipes
• ditches and balancing ponds on AW owned land
• Category Two responder to local and national emergencies
• mains water

• provision of flood defences and water level management in low lying areas
• maintenance and protection of key watercourses

• advising agencies of local flood issues
• implement relevant parts of their emergency plan until more help arrives
• ditches on parish council owned land

• land drainage on their own property
• watercourses where they are the riparian owner
• protection of their own property from flooding
• repairing flood damage to their own property