Surface Water Management Plans
Following DEFRA’s ‘Making Space for Water’, the summer flooding of 2007 and the Pitt Review of 2008, Surface Water Management Plans have been implemented as part of the approach to improving surface water drainage and reducing flood risk in urban areas. SWMPs will co-ordinate input and action from all stakeholders concerned with urban drainage, such as local authorities, water utilities, EA, IDBs, developers, highways agencies and local residents.
The key to the delivery of effective SWMPs is an understanding of integrated urban drainage, which is an approach to managing an urban drainage system taking account of the different physical components of that system, the way these components interact and that the different organisations concerned with the component systems must work together to make the system as a whole operate effectively.
We have considerable experience in dealing with the various stakeholders that influence any IUD study or surface water assessment.
