Software firm Micro Drainage have said that a computer model that it has built for West Berkshire town of Thatcham had corresponded with the location of households submitting claims for last summers storm.
Managing Director Aiden Millerick claims that in just two weeks, “We identified the major pluvial flow paths, the vulnerable areas, the speed and depth of the flow.”
The more extreme the event, the less detailed the information needed to be, he said. The contribution of the underground drainage system to reducing overland flows during an extreme event was ‘likely to be minimal’.
The Environment Agency is developing a new flood-mapping strategy to improve the quality and coverage of data on flood risk. It is taking on board the finding from government research that a targeted approach to urban flood risk modelling and mapping was needed.
Micro Drainage believes that a significant amount of information useful for reducing flood water quickly, can be obtained by modelling storm water flow.
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