Army Units on Standby At Tenbury Wells?

Three Army lorries arrived this morning in Tenbury Wells.  They joined a huddle of Worcester County Council and other yellow jackets teams.

Up to 80 troops have been mobilised and are available to help out in the Tenbury area.  It is likely that they will be billeted at Tenbury High School, which will also be used as the local control centre for the emergency team and for anyone evacuated from their homes.

The next storm is due to hit Tenbury about 4pm on 14th February 2014.

At 1.15pm the river level was 2.45 metres.  Flooding in Tenbury usually occurs at 5 metres so there is reasonable "headroom" but our fate is usually dictated by the rainfall around Newtown in mid Wales.

Keep up to date with the river level at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/120742.aspx?stationId=2005

Funding Sought For Tenbury Flood Defence

Harriett Baldwin MP has asked the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to find flood defence funding for Tenbury Wells. She is hoping that Tenbury will receive about £5m from £120m funding for flood defences announced by the government in November.

Ms Baldwin said: "Upton's schemes have passed some rigorous testing over the last few weeks and I am told that savings delivered for insurers means that the investment has paid for itself twice over already." "All eyes now turn to Tenbury where we need to find a permanent solution and I have asked the department to look at ways we can find funding for this scheme in 2013"

Hopefully, once the funding agreement is in place, the action plan will be significantly revised from the outline plan published sometime ago. This involved huge lengths of permanant earth bunds.

This is how a Horsham Cllr reacted when a landowner created a bund on his land.

“The bund has to be seen to be believed. It is an outrageous scar on the landscape, both from the road and on the site."

and another said

"“The bunds are incongruous and an unnatural feature, many hundreds of metres in length. The land should be put back to where it was."

Yet, seemingly no one locally has any objection to huge earthworks behind the Church or across the Burgage?  I can understand that people don't want their family graves flooded or their properties, but must the town suffer the addition of these permanent unnatural features?

Tenbury on the brink again.

It looks like we might have had yet another lucky escape, and according to the EA website there is no current warning for Tenbury.

Flooding on the Teme at Tenbury Wells

There is limited flooding in Tenbury Wells this morning with parts of the Riverside walk and Kyre Brook footpath under water.

The river level appears to have peaked for now, but Worcester News is reporting flooding further down stream especially at Newnham Bridge.
The EA Tenbury Gauge shows the increase in the rise in height of the River appears to be levelling off.

Read about other local flooding indents on the tenburyfire.co.uk website.

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More photo's Credited at Tenbury Wells but not sure where.