​Scottish flood risk management

Issued: April 2016

Flooding in Scotland has the potential to affect one in 13 businesses and one in 22 homes. The central belt, traditionally Scotland’s industrial and residential heart, is at the greatest risk.

New plans to manage risk

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Services for the public sector. Fast and simple.

Issued: June 2016

The National Procurement Service (NPS) Framework for Wales enables the public sector to procure environmental and flood risk services rapidly and efficiently.

What is the NPS Framework achieving?

Wales has unique flood risk and planning policy challenges. …

Leading by example – the SuDS manual in Wales

Issued: June 2016

Six months on from its release, it is still early days for the latest CIRIA SuDS manual and associated non-statutory guidance. Wales is leading the way in their holistic approach to its use.

Why is the SuDS

The jury’s out on natural flood management

Issued: June 2016

Almost ten years ago, the Pitt review of flooding pointed towards a whole-catchment response to flood management. Not just flood defences in urban areas, but changes to upland land use and water flows. Where are we now?

Designed for success. Sustainable drainage secures planning.

WHS has satisfied the runoff and treatment requirements in a large complex site with a combination of appropriate SuDS strategies. Biodiversity will be enhanced and local amenity enriched.

A complex challenge

A proposed 20-hectare development of mixed commercial, industrial and

The NPS Framework delivers in Wales

Issued: December 2016

Welsh public bodies using the NPS Framework to tender for flood risk are saving money and delivering value to taxpayers.

We are delivering too. WHS was delighted to be awarded a place in the Framework (Construction Consultancy

Going with the flow. 2 MW of hydropower on the River Grudie.

The River Grudie hydroelectric scheme is under construction. The success of this remote and sensitively located development has demanded the expertise of the entire WHS team over seven years.

Seeing it through from the start

In 2009, Innogy commissioned WHS …

Making practice perfect. Source apportionment in the river network.

The Environment Agency (EA) and UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) have been working together to develop a water-quality model to allocate the proportions of loads and concentrations of priority substances from different sources in the river network (source apportionment).

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Assessing water resources on a large scale

Information on the magnitude and variability of flow regimes, at the river-reach scale, is central to water resource and water quality management. It is also essential to know the difference between natural and artificial components of stream flow data.

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