Questions
1 What are the physical characteristics of the River Severn from Cressage to the Free Bridge?
2 What are the causes of flooding in the area?
3 What hazards occur as the result of flooding?
- Examples of flooding along the River Severn. (12.4Mb Powerpoint)
4 How are people and the environment affected by flooding?
- How are people affected by flooding?
- BBC - Ironbridge Floods.
- Building repair work...after the floods.
5 How can the flood risk be predicted and managed?
- How soon will I have to wait before my house starts to flood?
- Flood Data Spreadsheet: Rainfall, Discharge,and river depth graphs.
- BBC Weather- Flooding.
- Flood prevention measures from the Environment Agency.
6 What are the options of reducing the effects of flooding in the Ironbridge Gorge?
- Again, refer to this Powerpoint presentation and explore the issues of flooding along the River Severn.
- Find out more about flood prevention measures from this Environment Agency Powerpoint. (14.1Mb Powerpoint)
7 Why do people live in areas at risk from flooding along the River Severn?
Flooding Photographs
Task Sheets
These tasks sheets provide a range of activites for students based around river flooding.
Ironbridge Emergency Flood Warning Plan
Annotated Field Sketches
Task One
Task Two
Changing River Severn over time.
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