ENVIRONMENT AGENCY WORKS TO REDUCE FLOOD RISK
Work to reduce the risk of flooding in Ryde will continue in September, when the Environment Agency puts in measures to stop sand blocking an outfall from Monkton Mead Brook. The organisation will install low level flapped boards, to reduce the amount of sand being washed in, while allowing it to be washed back out. Phase one of work on the outfall has now been completed. The Environment Agency says the work is necessary because of an increase in the height of Ryde Sands, since the outfall was originally installed in 2001. The organisation says it will closely monitor sand levels over the next 12 months, to measure the success of its work. It is hoped the flood risk to properties located upstream of the outfall will be reduced