The Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network

The Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network is an innovative new multi-organisational project that is promoting urban and rural community awareness of flood risk and local flood histories at various locations within the Lower Severn catchment. The network has been co-ordinated by the University of Gloucestershire in partnership with a wide variety of individuals and community groups. The lower Severn has a long history of flooding (e.g. in 1258, 1483, 1770 and more recently in 1947, 1968, 1981, 1990, 2000 and most recently in 2007). The extent of community engagement with local flood histories and the best ways to encourage communities to have an awareness of past floods as a part of their shared flood heritage have been topics of on-going national debate.