Uncategorised Archives – Yorkshire & Humber Drainage Board

YHDB Launch New Maintenance Maps

Published 26 May 2021
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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 […]

ADA 83rd Annual Conference

Published 13 October 2020
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The Association of Drainage Authorities (ADA) announce their 83rd Annual Conference. For more information visit https://www.ada.org.uk/events/ada-conference/

River Ouse Catchment Board Reports

Published 03 October 2020
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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 […]

Vale of Pickering Internal Drainage Board

Published 01 October 2020
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We are pleased to announce that as of today, 1st October 2020, the Vale of Pickering Internal Drainage Board is now managed by Yorkshire and Humber Drainage Boards (YHDB). YHDB is a management group that represents 8 Internal Drainage Board across the region, providing administrative and technical services on behalf of all our partner Internal […]

£3.7m Flood Alleviation Scheme Begins

Published 19 June 2020
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Work has officially commenced on two large storm water pumping stations on the banks of the rivers Humber and Ouse. This strategically important scheme is led by the Ouse and Humber Drainage Board which manages water levels by maintaining 250 miles of watercourses and 17 pumping stations in an area that covers over 200 square […]

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