WASTOP ® FLOOD PROTECTION WITH WASTOP AT GORES BROOK & BEAM RIVER, ENGLAND Location: Beam River and Gores Brook Customer: The Environment Agency PROBLEM: The Thames Gateway is a Central Government priority area for regeneration and growth, and stretches along the River Thames from the City of London eastwards through Thurrock and Bexley and on to Southend in Essex and Sheerness in Kent. Over the next 20 years, 120,000 new homes will be built and 180,000 new jobs will be created. The Environment Agency have constructed two large pumping stations and refurbished a tidal sluice as part of ongoing works to improve ood alleviation in the local area. These pumping stations provide a signi
cant level of ood protection to large areas of Barking and Dagenham. Without any form of check valve th

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