Cockermouth Flood Action Group

Emergency grants for individuals and families

Grants may be made for charitable purposes to relieve hardship in Cumbria caused directly or indirectly by the storms and flooding in November 2009

Funded by donations from individuals, local businesses and government bodies
Flood resilience work is included irrespective of being fully insured

Environment Agency: Flood-hit homes must be rebuilt to better cope with future floods | By Mark Hansford

The Environment Agency is urging owners of properties damaged in last month’s Cumbria floods to insist that insurers repair their homes and businesses to be more flood-resilient.

The latest news about Flood Defence works in Cockermouth 2010 from the Environment Agency.

Key Points
Ground investigation, survey, and design activities are all underway and it is anticipated that wall replacing and strengthening works on the River Cocker will commence in mid-February 2010.

The full investigation of current level of flood risk for the whole of Cockermouth will commence in April 2010.

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The Cockermouth Flood Action Group was set up in response to the 2005 floods and has been working with the agencies responsible for flood prevention in the local area to achieve reductions to the flood risk in the area. The group has been proactive since the devastating floods of November 19th 2009. The group has held three meetings and has grown significantly in membership. The group now includes residents that have and have not been flooded, representatives from the business and farming community and retired and non retired professionals.