A NEW study which forecasts more than 100 years of flood risks for Weymouth town centre amid new developments springing up has been published.
It has been published by Dorset Council in a bid to provide a way to identify and deliver appropriate measures to control, manage and mitigate flood risks over the lifetime of new developments connected with the town centre’s regeneration.
The study assesses the levels of flooding that could occur over the next 114 years, through to 2138, in extreme weather events. It considers sea, river, rainfall and ground water. It follows persistent wet weather across the county from November last year that left much of the Weymouth area flooded.
The Environment Agency (EA) carried out the study on behalf of the council and the findings have now been published.
Level 2 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) will help guide the council’s work on local plan and the town council’s work on its neighbourhood plan.
Flood risk maps were prepared as part of the SFRA for sites showing fluvial flood risks with an allowance for climate change, tidal flood risks with an allowance for…
