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Committee visits to inform flooding inquiry |
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
As part of a major flooding inquiry the Scottish Parliament's Rural Affairs and Environment Committee members will visit two areas of Scotland to learn more about flood defences.
Perthshire’s natural and man-made flood defences will come under
scrutiny this week when the committee visits Perth and Gleneagles on
Tuesday.
The visit will begin in Perth, where MSPs will learn about the River
Tay flood warning system and see the Communications Centre operated by
the Scottish Environment Protection Agency – the hub of the Floodline
system in Scotland. They will also be shown the hard flood defences
within the city, managed by Perth and Kinross Council.
In the afternoon, MSPs will visit a demonstration site in Glen Devon,
managed by the World Wide Fund for Nature Scotland. This site is the
only one of its kind in the UK and uses the natural features of the
land to achieve sustainable flood management.
Through the visit the committee seeks to contrast the potential of
sustainable flood management with the more traditional concrete
defences. Committee members will take the opportunity to talk to some
of those directly involved in flood management.
Convener Roseanna Cunningham said: "Flooding is a major concern for
people across Scotland, and climate change is only going to make the
problem worse. With this inquiry, we want to find out more about when
and how flooding problems can arise, and what public agencies can do to
respond effectively. We also want to consider how flooding can be
managed in new ways.
"There is now widespread recognition that traditional hard defences
cannot be a complete solution. Using the natural capacity of the
landscape to absorb and slow the distribution of excess water may also
minimise the impact of flooding in the future."
A separate visit, involving three other committee members, will take
place the same day in Glasgow and East Kilbride. This visit, hosted by
SEPA and Glasgow City Council, is to find out about the River Clyde
Flood Warning System, and the Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan.
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