The EA is failing communities at risk of flooding. Flood risk has 3 main elements, precipitation, water management and flood protection (where management cannot be met). The EA has a responsibility to take a strategic overview of flooding however it operates a strong bias toward individual capital defence projects over management of water resources (water bodies, water ways and above and below ground flows) for which it appears to have no strategic maintenance regime to help reduce flood risk.
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