Case Study

St Asaph flood defence barriers put up in city

St Asaph flood defence barriers put up in city

St Asaph flood defence barriers put up in city Customer: Natural Resources Wales Location: St Asaph, Wales Product: 0.5m Floodstop barrier Keith Ivens, area flood risk manager for Natural Resources Wales, said: “We are working hard to improve the level of protection for people living in St Asaph and have already introduced a series of measures to do this until we are able to implement the long-term solution. “These include removing vegetation from the riverbank, raising the existing embankment, putting new removable screens on Spring Gardens bridge, purchasing temporary barriers and reviewing our operating procedures. “We have again part-installed the temporary flood barriers on top of the existing embankments, as we did last January, to cut down on the time it takes to install them if f

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