Transcript community resilience - Vale of White Horse District Council

Emergency Contingency Planning
Flooding
John Backley
2014 Floods
Introduction:
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what happened - our role during the
flooding
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what went well - and what we learnt
looking forward – community
resilience
Weather impacts
• one of, if not the most, exceptional
periods of winter rainfall in at least
248 years
• flow rates on the River Thames
remained exceptionally high for longer
than in any previous flood episode
- Met Office
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Our role and response
• gathering information to assess needs
– time on the ground, meeting
residents, discussing concerns
• co-ordinated approach to deploying
resources via OCC Emergency
Operations Centre – OCC Highways,
OFRS, TVP, OCC, SCS, military
• prioritising assistance to the most
vulnerable
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Sandbag provision
• good use of our contractor Biffa to
deliver sandbags
– door to door for the most vulnerable as a
priority
– using sandbag dumps to key locations,
e.g. B&Q, Abbey House, Wantage,
Grove, Steventon…
• some issues with un-managed
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sandbag dumps
example of Abingdon TC coming to
us to provide a solution to theft of
sandbags from the B&Q dump
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What went well & what we learnt
• importance of community level
engagement in effective sandbag
distribution
• where communities were organised
and gave us reliable information it
enabled us to respond more
effectively to their needs – own needs
assessment, SPOC, relationship
• self-reliant communities lightened our
load and freed up resources to protect
the most vulnerable
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Reports of flooding from town and
parish councils
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•blue = complete, yellow in progress
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•Location
•Parish/village
•1
•Ladygrove Paddock
•Abingdon
•2
•Abingdon Court Care Home
•Abingdon
•3
•43 Virginia Way
•Abingdon
•4
•Main sewer blocked
•Appleton with Eaton
•5
•Baulking Lane, A417 at Challow and Stanford road
•Challow
•6
• Elm Cottage
•Charney Bassett
•7
•Red House, West Street
•Childey
•8
•Childrey Lane
•East Challow
•9
•Cornhill lane (Windmill Place)
•East Challow
•10
•Memorial Hall
•East Hanney
•11
•Lower Mill
•East Hanney
•12
•Coxwell Road (1)
•Great Coxwell
•13
•Coxwell Road (2) Entrance to village
•Great Coxwell
•14
•Grove Road
•Harwell
•15
•Kennington road
•Kennington
•16
•Mill House area
•Letcombe Regis
•17
•Beansheaf Cottage, Mill Street
•Marcham
•18
•Pembrook Lane & 104 High Street
•Milton
•19
•102 High Street
•Milton
•20
•Moor ditch, Pembroke Lane.
•Milton
•21
•Causeway to Lower Radley, Panhandle & Spinneys Cottage
•Radley
•22
•Bayworth Road
•Radley
•23
•Manor Close
•Shrivenham
•24
•Manor Road, John Piers Lane, Barleycott Lane and St Lawrence Road
•South Hinksey
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Moor ditch, Pembroke Lane.
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Milton
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21
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Causeway to Lower Radley, Panhandle & Spinneys Cottage
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Radley
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22
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Bayworth Road
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Radley
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23
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Manor Close
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Shrivenham
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24
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Manor Road, John Piers Lane, Barleycott Lane and St Lawrence Road
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South Hinksey
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25
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Rookery Barn, Vicarage Road Ox13 6SL
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Steventon
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26
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12 School Close
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Steventon
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27
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Mill Street & Causeway
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Steventon
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28
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Hill Farm
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Steventon
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29
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Boars Hill towards Bayworth and Sunningwell
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Sunningwell
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30
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Churchmere Road
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Sutton Courtenay
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31
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Upper Common Lane
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Uffington
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32
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Watchfield Village
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Watchfield
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33
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Old Mill, Mill Street
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Wantage
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34
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A417
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West and East Challow
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35
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Road out of West Hanney (towards Denchworth)
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West Hanney
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36
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The Greenway road (junction with The Millham)
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West Hendred
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37
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Woolstone Road (where road meets Claypit Lane)
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Woolstone
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38
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Grove Mill
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Grove
Looking forward – community
resilience
• lessons apply to flooding AND snow,
•
power cuts, loss of water supply etc.
a community emergency plan can be
simple:
– a few key contacts
– identifying risks in your village/parish
– resources available locally e.g. place of
safety
– the help you might need and what you
can do for yourselves
• www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/
community-emergency-plans
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Supporting community resilience
• send us your plans
– helps us to put together future budgets
and plans for community resilience
projects
• potential schemes
– community managed sandbag stores
works well in West Oxfordshire
– tools for water course maintenance
– sale of new eco sacks and door guards
– snow clearing equipment
– generators for running key facilities
– personal resilience
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Contacts
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