Bolder leadership for surface water flooding

Article written by Julie Foley, our Director of Flood Risk Strategy and Natural Adaptation, Environment Agency Surface water flooding happens when there is heavy rainfall and there is so much rainwater that it overwhelms drainage systems. Instead, rainwater collects over the ground causing surface water flooding also known as flash flooding. Currently 3.4 million properties in England are in areas at risk from this kind of flooding. Of those at surface water flood risk, over 368,000 properties..