Welcome to the Yorkshire & Humber Drainage Board

Yorkshire & Humber Drainage Boards

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Welcome to Yorkshire and Humber Drainage Boards (YHDB).

YHDB is a public sector management group that represents 8 Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) across Yorkshire.

Although each Board is an independent public authority, we work together to deliver improved services. Our work is essential for the sustainability of large parts of the region.

The Work of Internal Drainage Boards

Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) are locally accountable independent public authorities responsible for the general supervision of drainage within their districts, except main rivers.

IDBs raise local taxes (rates) in order to carry out maintenance works on arterial watercourses and some rivers, they also operate flood risk pumping stations, sluices and other structures.

Definitive
Maintenance
Map

View our interactive map showing watercourses and pumping stations that our Boards maintain. Click on the link to view a detailed map that also shows our planned maintenance activities.

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Latest News from Yorkshire & Humber Drainage Boards

YHDB Launch New Maintenance Maps

Published 26 May 2021
Uncategorised

Yorkshire and Humber Drainage Boards have launched its improved maintenance maps this week. The new mapping product uses ESRI ARCGIS infrastructure and provides a new cleaner user interface to show Board maintained watercourses. Learning from a series of major incidents the new maps also show other water bodies that interface with the local land drainage […]

River Ouse Catchment Board Reports

Published 03 October 2020
Uncategorised

These fascinating reports from 1937, 1938 and 1939 journals the work of the River Ouse Catchment Board, a predecessor authority of today’s Environment Agency. The reports give an insight into the essential work of the catchment board; to quote from the 1939 report “Land Drainage and Flood Prevention is essentially a ‘long-term’ service”, a service […]

Black Drain Drainage Board

The Black Drain Drainage Board provides flood risk and water level management services to communities between Thorne in South Yorkshire and Rawcliffe Bridge in East Yorkshire. The Board is in the Lower Don Catchment Area.

Cowick & Snaith Internal Drainage Board

Cowick and Snaith Internal Drainage Board undertakes work to reduce flood risk to the Town of Snaith and the villages of West Cowick, East Cowick and Pollington. Its watercourses and pumping stations are critical to the drainage of the River Aire Washlands.

Danvm Drainage Commissioners

Danvm, pronounced “Day-Num” is taken from the Roman Latin phrase meaning “place on the river Don”. The Danvm Drainage Commissioners (the Board) is one of the largest in the region and serves communities between the River Don and the River Aire.

Dempster Internal Drainage Board

Dempster Internal Drainage Board takes its name from Dempster Goat (Goit) a watercourse within its district but serves the community of Old Goole in East Yorkshire draining that urban area and agricultural land to the south west.

Ouse & Humber Drainage Board

Ouse and Humber Drainage Board is the largest IDB in the region and drains approximately 20% of the county of East Riding of Yorkshire (UA Area). Its work is essential to drain key infrastructure that connects the city of Hull to the rest of the UK.

Rawcliffe Internal Drainage Board

Rawcliffe Internal Drainage Board serves the community in the village of Rawcliffe and surrounding area. The Board operates a number of pumping stations installed when the M18 and M62 motorways were constructed. The district includes the large Langham Interchange.

Reedness & Swinefleet Internal Drainage Board

Reedness and Swinefleet IDB not only serves the communities in those villages but maintains the 3 mile long Swinefleet Warping Drain which takes huge quantities of water from the Thorne Moors SSSI which is managed by Natural England.

Vale of Pickering Internal Drainage Board

This stunningly beautiful drainage district serves a flat area surrounded by the Yorkshire Moors, Wolds and Howardian Hills in the Derwent and Rye Valley’s where once boggy ground known as Marishes now support a thriving rural economy.

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The Work of Internal Drainage Boards

Definitive Maintenance Map

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Definitive
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