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Aerial footage shared to Twitter on December 26 shows the extent of flooding from the River Great Ouse in Bedford, UK, as a result of Storm Bella.Emergency services rescued people from properties ...
The Cut-off Channel is a man-made waterway which runs along the eastern edge of the Fens in Norfolk and Suffolk, England.It was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s as part of flood defence measures, and carries the headwaters of the River Wissey, River Lark and River Little Ouse in times of flood, delivering them to Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse.
In Great Billing, the leisure park Billing Aquadrome was evacuated on 3 January due to severe flooding. [7] In Shrewsbury, several residents were forced to leave their homes as a result of rising water levels on the River Severn at Welsh Bridge. [8] In Worcester, the city centre was partially affected by flooding. [9]
The multi-agency project is backed by West Norfolk Council, the King’s Lynn Internal Drainage Board (KLIDB), Anglian Water and Norfolk Rivers Trust, and can now go ahead after funding was secured.
The River Great Ouse (/ uː z / ooz) is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire , the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wash and the North Sea near Kings Lynn .
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Gaywood River (sometimes known as the River Gay or River Gaywood or, in King's Lynn, as the Mill Fleet) is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the west of the county of Norfolk. [1] Its source is 11 metres above sea level, northwest of the village of Gayton in Derby Fen, Map Reference TF 705 209.
The Ouse Washes are part of the system for controlling the flow of the Great Ouse when water levels in the river are high. In normal conditions, the waters of the Great Ouse run through the New Bedford River (or Hundred Foot Drain) to join the tidal stretch of the river at Welmore Lake Sluice, where another automatic system controls outflow.