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Properties at risk from flooding

Tom Ghee - July 2011
floodmanagement@kirklees.gov.uk

Sources of advice

Find out if your property is at risk from flooding from a main river:
Contact Floodline: 0845 9881188
Website: Environment Agency: Flooding (external site)
Subscribe to receive flood warnings:
Environment Agency: Floodline Warnings Direct - our free flood warning service (external site)
Contact us about other types of flood risk:
Contact the Flood management and Drainage Team
Check your insurance covers flooding:
Website: Association of British Insurers: Flooding and insurance (External site)
Make your property flood resilient:
Website: Environment Agency: Prepare your property for flooding (External site)

Use of sandbags

To protect your property from flooding, you may consider using filled sandbags to keep water out of air vents, doors and other water accessible points to your property or to divert water away.

They can be purchased from builders merchants and DIY stores.

There are two sandbag types:

Hessian sacking. Should be stored empty, in a dry place and should be filled just before they are required. When properly stacked they are the most efficient at stopping water, however they tend to decay once filled with sand.
Polypropylene. More durable when filled but may be slightly less efficient at stopping water.

Contact the Flood Management and Drainage Team

Flood Management and Drainage Team
Civic Centre 3
Huddersfield
HD1 2JR

Email: floodmanagement@kirklees.gov.uk

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