Introduction
Jed Ramsay
Project Groundwater Project Lead
“It’s hard to believe that this year marks the half-way point for Project Groundwater. We’ve come a long way since we started to build understanding of groundwater flooding in our pilot areas, and this year saw an exciting, and important, shift towards closer working on the ground with communities.”
"We’ve been gathering experiences of groundwater flooding, capturing feedback to improve our automated groundwater flooding warning service, and planning property surveys to help communities understand, and ultimately boost, their flood resilience.
Learning, developing ideas, and sharing what we find has remained a key feature of our work this year, including re-imagining nature-based solutions for groundwater flooding, developing a resilience framework, and supporting PhD and Masters students on research that will make our work even more effective.
2024 saw the Project Groundwater Network step forward too. From a network of three groundwater flooding research projects, we are now a step closer to becoming a national organisation. Our aim, in the first instance, is to open and expand our network, to pool industry expertise and community knowledge. Together, we go further, faster.
I am excited to see what 2025, and this next half of our journey, brings. Thank you to everyone who is part of, and or supported by, Project Groundwater. Your continued enthusiasm and contribution is invaluable."
Message from the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme
Andrew Eden
National Programme Leader – Adaption & Resilience
"I’m really energised by the work of Project Groundwater. They’ve shone a light on groundwater flood risk as part of our £150m Flood & coastal resilience innovation programme. They’re pushing the boundaries – whether that’s their innovative partnership with ISS Aerospace to repurpose military drones with ground penetrating radar to investigate groundwater tables, or their development of a local groundwater flood alert system."
"We made sure that groundwater was represented across the programme, by selecting projects in Buckinghamshire, Gateshead and Lincolnshire and delighted to see their collaboration under the ‘Let’s Talk Groundwater Flooding’ banner. Together, these three projects are working hard to improve understanding and capabilities in modelling and forecasting groundwater flood risk, to produce tools for development planning, and to build a wider technical community. I look forward to following their progress in 2025."
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