Tag: moveable weir

Leeds flood defences perform as designed during Storm Babet

Leeds City Council has today (30 October 2023) issued an update on the current known impacts of Storm Babet, which brought high winds and heavy rain between October 19-21 2023. Yellow and amber alerts for rainfall were issued by the Met Office across the storm. The high levels of rainfall

£50million flood defence scheme opens in Leeds

A £50million flood alleviation scheme in Leeds which uses moveable weir technology – a first for flood risk reduction in the UK – has opened today (4 October 2017). The first phase of the award-winning Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme not only uses state-of-the-art flood defence engineering techniques but is one