Floods in Cumbria Flashcards
deaths?
3 (s)
how many homes flooded across Northern England?
19,000 (s)
How many homes affected by power cuts?
100,000 (s)
How many schools in Cumbria closed?
more than 40 (s)
What uni was forced to cancel teaching?
Lancaster Uni (s)
How did floods affect hospitals?
Appointments had to cancel as jhospitals had no mains electricity (s)
Cost of damage?
£500 million (ec)
What between England and Scotland forced to close?
rail route (ec)
Main roads and many bridges damaged. How did this affect businesses?
extra transport costs as people couldn’t get to work the usual way (ec)
What impact did large amounts of soil washed into rivers have?
millions of tonnes of silt transported by rivers and deposited on floodplains (en)
2 other environmental impact?
soil erosion, increased river discharge increased erosion (en)
Artificial levees were installed where?
along river in Cockermouth (en)
how much has been spent on flood defences in Cumbria since 2016? What does this include (5)?
£32.3 billion
self-closing barriers, artificial levees, river dredging, afforestation, agricultural improvements
how do self-closing barriers reduce flood risk in future?
barrier closes when the height of rivers exceeds a certain point - this prevents excess water from reaching valuable land and flooding them , which in turn reduces damage
how does river dredging reduce flood risk in future?
removing silt deepens river bed, allowing river to hold more water and reduce chance of it bursting its banks
