River Ribble
(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2015 to Question 224693, what the date, location and nature has been of the Environment Agency's spending on maintaining channels and flood defences on the River Ribble and its tributaries in the Savick Brook and Preston Asset Management Systems since 2010.
The Environment Agency has carried out the following activities to maintain channels and flood defences on the River Ribble and its tributaries since 2010, in the Savick Brook and Preston Asset Management Systems:
Financial year | Type of activity |
2010/11 | Obstruction removal, tree work, grass cutting by mechanical means, grass cutting by hand, vermin control, in-channel vegetation control, maintenance of structures, flood storage reservoir works, environmental management, and debris screen checks. |
2011/12 | Environmental management, tree work, in-channel vegetation control, weed control by mechanical means, weed control by hand , obstruction removal, asset inspections, debris screen checks, flood storage reservoir works, grass cutting by mechanical means, vermin control and maintenance of structures. |
2012/13 | Operational inspections, operation of structures, maintenance of structures, environmental management, obstruction removal, grass cutting by mechanical means, grass cutting by hand, asset inspections, in-channel vegetation control, debris screen checks, tree work and vermin control. |
2013/14 | Operation of structures, maintenance of structures, vermin control, asset inspections, obstruction removal, tree work, grass cutting by hand, flood storage reservoir works, in-channel vegetation control, environmental management and debris screen checks. |
2014/15 | Operation of structures, vermin control, obstruction removal, grass cutting by hand, grass cutting by mechanical means, in-channel vegetation control, tree work, weed control by hand, grass cutting by hand, maintenance of structures, debris screen checks, asset inspections, vermin control. |
Watercourses in these systems where this activity was carried out include: Savick Brook, Sharoe Brook, Eaves Brook, Boundary Brook, Sandy Brook, River Ribble, Moorbrook Culvert and Swilbrook Culvert.
Information on specific locations for each of these tasks is not held centrally.