Your residents’ association attends the quarterly Thames Regional Flood & Coastal Committee to ensure we have an eye on any changes to flood risk management and the activities of statutory authorities beyond our local Council, as Lead Local Flood Authority, to include the Environment Agency and Thames Water.
Consultation now open
There is a current consultation, closing date 20 May 2026; ‘significant water management issues’. The link is here.
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The Environment Agency classifies England according to river basin districts, each with an existing River Basin Management Plan, (RBMP).
The catchment data explorer is here. (Apologies the EA is not always consistent in its nomenclature).
The remit of the Ruislip Residents’ Association crosses a river basin watershed: residents of Ruislip are part of the Pinn Water Body, whilst those in Ruislip Manor are part of the Yeading Brook Water Body, (Crane Rivers & Lakes) catchment.
Pinn Water Body.
Yeading Brook Water Body
Moderate ecological status
Both water bodies achieve ‘Moderate ecological status’.
Further detail is being sought from our local Environment Agency partners about this status.
However, benzo-perilenes are the result of incomplete combustion, and are found in cigarette smoke and vehicle exhaust, and polybrominated diphenylethers are used as flame retardants in everyday items to include electronics, textiles and furniture foams. The latter are now banned in this country but these chemicals are regrettably persistent within the environment.
Ammonia is typically found in river water due to domestic and industrial mis-connections. This results in foul water being plumbed into the surface water network that is designed to transfer rain from roads, pavements, other impervious surfaces, and rooves of all sorts, residential, industrial and institutional towards our local watercourses.
Please do consider responding to this consultation.
Your committee is here to offer any assistance we can.
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