Flood Alert Areas

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08 March 2024
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Summary

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA055. Flood Alert Areas are geographical areas where it is possible for flooding of low-lying land and roads to occur from rivers, sea and in some locations groundwater. A single Flood Alert Area may cover the floodplain within the Flood Warning Service Limit of multiple catchments of similar characteristics. A Flood Alert Area may contain one or more Flood Warning Areas. In some coastal locations a Flood Alert may be issued for spray or overtopping and be defined by a stretch of coastline.

A Flood Alert is issued to warn people of the possibility of flooding and encourage them to be alert, stay vigilant and make early / low impact preparations for flooding. Flood Alerts are issued earlier than Flood Warnings to provide advance notice of the possibility of flooding and may be issued when there is less confidence that flooding will occur in a Food Warning Area. Flood Warnings Areas (established to apply to discrete communities) are available in AfA054.

INFORMATION WARNING: The groundwater flood alert areas are either at a community/local scale, or where this is not possible are more generalised and based on other factors, such as geology and counties. In general, specialists used the national groundwater dataset to make a comparison with historical maps and bedrock geology to create the groundwater flood alert areas. Additional data sources, including groundwater susceptibility maps, borehole data, local modelling and LiDAR may also have been used depending on the location of the area.

Flood Alert Areas can be created, amended, or deleted at certain times in the year. This dataset was last updated on: 22nd November 2023

The next scheduled updates where changes may be introduced are: 21st February 2024 22nd May 2024 14th August 2024 and 20th November 2024 Please note that these dates may change at short notice if there are system issues or a large-scale flood event. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-03-05
Access contraints
© Crown copyright and database rights 2024 Ordnance Survey 100024198
Harvest GUID
864c72de-d465-11e4-855f-f0def148f590
Extent
Latitude: 55.816° to 49.943°
Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2004-01-01 (creation)
2024-02-28 (revision)
Frequency of update
continual
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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