Morton’s Leam Improvement Works
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Land Drainage Improvement Works Parson Drove
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Buffalo LVT-4 Amphibious Vehicle Recovery
The LVT-4 “Buffalo” amphibious vehicle, one of approximately 30 brought in to act as an emergency flood defense in Crowland, Lincolnshire, in 1947. The vehicle has been well preserved by a mixture of peat and clay. With the vehicle being 26ft long and roughly 13 tons its fair to say it was mammoth task. A … Read more
Farming in the Fens
5000,000 people live in the Fens. 80,000 people are employed from farm to fork. The value of the food chain in the Fens is £3.1 billion
Foul Anchor Sluice
The North Level District IDB, in partnership with The Environment Agency, undertake a once-in-a-generation flood protection project at Foul Anchor Sluice, north of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. The £700,000 project involved the removal and replacement of two large sluice gate doors and the dredging and widening of a water-storage pound upstream. Video: Narration by Adam Hart-Davis, … Read more
Water Management in the Fens
Informative maintenance video for water management in the fens.
Stewards House Drain Improvement
The North Level District Internal Drainage Board created improvements to an existing open drainage system in Thorney village near Peterborough. Work took four weeks to complete installing a new large pipeline to improve surface water drainage and to increase the standard of local flood protection. Our video gives further details… [arve url=”https://vimeo.com/125172021 “]
Cradge Bank Repairs
The Whittlesey Washes Works Delivered in Partnership: North Level District Internal Drainage Board in partnership with The Environment Agency and other organisations undertake extensive flood protection works along the tidal River Nene, Cambridgeshire. Video: Narrated by Adam Hart-Davis, Produced by Claire Buckley, Spare Wheel Productions.
Rise in household waste fly-tipping damaging our countryside
A campaign group SCRAP in Cambridgeshire is urging people to dispose of their waste properly because of the damage it is causing to our countryside. Over 11,000 incidents of fly-tipping were recorded across the whole of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in the last year. It is often the farmers who are left to pick up the … Read more