Library image, Hythe seafront – SCOPIX Folkestone & Hythe District Council has successfully secured £2.35 million in funding from the Environment Agency to continue its vital beach management program, safeguarding…
Unsplash Library Image – Weather Forecasters at the Met Office are warning people in Kent to prepare for significant disruption across the region this Thursday due to developing thunderstorms and…
Library image: Good news is on the horizon for coastal communities as essential spring beach management work is scheduled to begin next week, bolstering defences against flooding for more than…
The latest chapter of bi-annual beach management work helping to protect more than 3,000 homes and businesses from flooding starts next week. Contractors will begin recycling and regrading shingle along…
Library image – Road closure Southern Water is adding AI technology to its underground network in an effort to cut storm overflows in Whitstable. The technology will harness the power…
Coastal bathing water quality and the district’s potential risk of inland flooding will both be on the agenda at a meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council next week. Southern…
Work on the new outfall pipe at Swaleciffe Photo: Southern Water Southern Water has completed the controlled sinking of a new outfall pipe nearly one kilometre long at Swalecliffe on…
Sandgate beach Beach management work helping to protect more than 3,000 homes and businesses along the Folkestone and Hythe coast from flooding is due to start next week. This year’s…
Library image – Flooding Work on a new tank which will increase capacity for storm water to handle 7.5 million litres during wet weather before it is fully treated and…
Following a sewer pipe burst in Bishopstone on Saturday 23 March, which led to sewage flowing into Bishopstone Glen, Southern Water has now completed repairs. The spill from the leaking…
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