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Nottinghamshire County Council said a major incident was declared “due to rising levels along the river Trent” and that residents who live in flood risk areas should be prepared to evacuate ...
The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Staffordshire, Rugeley, Burton-upon-Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse, Yorkshire at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The wide Humber estuary has often been described as ...
This led to more than 300 flood warnings being issued by the Environment Agency, with extensive flooding affecting the River Trent, Severn, Avon and Thames. [2] Further bands of heavy rain over the following days worsened the situation, and a major incident was declared in Nottinghamshire on 4 January. [3]
The floods followed a lengthy cold period with freezing weather lasting from September 1682 until February 1683. [1] Nottinghamshire suffered regular and heavy snowfalls during this period. [2] The thawing of snow and breaking up of river ice caused significant flooding on 5 and 6 February, affecting the entire Trent valley. [3] [4]
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Severn Trent Water is installing storm tanks to cut river pollution [Severn Trent] Severn Trent Water has announced that it will spend £1.7bn to reduce spills at storm overflows across its region ...
The first major change occurred around 1628, when the drainage engineer Cornelius Vermuyden cut a new channel for the river across the Isle of Axholme, and built a sluice at Althorpe where it entered the River Trent. Nearly 90 years of civil unrest followed, before the issues of flooding were finally resolved.
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