Making sure our sites can continue to operate following extremes of weather is vital to help ensure the resilience of your water supply.
One of those weather extremes is flooding.
By 2024/25 we have committed to protecting 92 of our sites from flooding with less than a 1/1000 Annual Exceedance Probability. If we do not meet this target an underperformance payment due in 2024/25.
How have we performed?
We have now surveyed 97 of our sites and completed work at 31 sites to bring them up to the standard of protection needed.
The surveys showed that 26 sites were already protected to a 1:1000 flood event, meaning there is adequate protection of all our assets at those locations.
We have achieved 59 sites out of the target of 92 sites. As we have not met the full target there is a penalty of £24,000.
Over the last five years we were funded £1.3 million to protect all 92 sites but we have over spent on this. We spent £2.4 million to achieve the 59 sites which were considered to be the sites at higher risk from flooding. A few of our sites are cost prohibitive to protect as they are at a very high flood risk and to fully protect them would be over £1 million per site. We continue to monitor the other sites and will undertake more work during the next five years where the risk is material but would be a cost effective way of spending our customers’ money.
