Flooding in the UK
In June and July 2007, heavy rains caused widespread flooding throughout England and Wales. The most severe floods occurred across Northern Ireland on 12 June; East Yorkshire and The Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, The Midlands, Gloucestershire and Worcester on 25 June; and Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and South Wales on 20 July. It was Britain's wettest May–July since records began in 1776.
55,000 properties were flooded; around 7,000 people were rescued from the flood waters by the emergency services and 13 people died. It was the largest loss of essential services since World War II with almost half a million people left without mains water or electricity. Transport networks failed, a dam breach was narrowly averted and emergency facilities were put out of action. The civil and military authorities described the rescue effort as the biggest in peacetime Britain.
On 28th June and again on 24th July, the Charter was activated by the Authorised User, the UK Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat,on behalf of the Environment Agency, an organisation with flood risk management responsibilities in England and Wales. The value adding service, providing flood products, was carried out by DLR-ZKI under RISK-EOS. The end user was the Environment Agency who used the derived products to map the flood extent, manage flood defence assets and aid in flood response capabilities.
Images and/or Image Products Delivered Under The Charter
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Radarsat/UK-DMC images, flooding in York area |
Radarsat/UK-DMC images, flooding in Doncaster area |
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Envisat ASAR, flood situation 26/07/2007, Worcester |
Envisat ASAR, flood situation 26/07/2007, Gloucester |
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Envisat ASAR WS, flood situation 23/07/2007 |
TerrasSAR-X, flood extent in Gloucester, 25/07/2007 |
