Twenty years ago this week, flash floods devastated the north ... water surged down the steep valley at Boscastle on the ...
The car park, will effectively form a wide, sacrificial flood plain, should extreme conditions similar to those of August 16th 2004 be repeated ... and filled with site won fill material. For the ...
PA Media Flash floods hit Boscastle, north Cornwall in 2004, leading to more than 50 people needing to be airlifted from their homes The warning comes from the agency, supported by Exeter City ...
To prevent this type of flood happening again, the environmental agency invested £10 million into several flood defences, such as: ...
The flooding coincided with a high tide, making the impact much worse. Physical causes of the Boscastle flood Human causes of the Boscastle flood Rain for 12 out of 14 days in August. Many trees ...