Sheffield- Hundreds of thousands of pounds spent clearing rivers, including tree clearance along River Don between Owlerton and Kelham Island, dredging of the Don at Oughtibridge, removal of 40 years of silt deposits and old timb
er from River Loxley, Hillsborough.
- Flood defence wall at Kelham Island.
- Work to reduce flood risk on Blackburn Brook, Chapeltown, including better maintenance, clearing debris, increasing the size of a storage area for flood water at Devil's Bridge Pond, modifying a bridge near Chapeltown park to increase water capacity beneath and extra rainfall gauges to monitor flood risk more closely.
Doncaster - £2.6 million this financial year to reduce the flood risk to 500 properties.
- Work to improve resilience of Bentley Ings pumping station that was flooded last June.
- Rebuilding of a section of Bentley washlands embankment - which needed shoring up with giant sandbags - to reduce flood risk in Bentley and Toll Bar, plus replacement of 160m of flood defence along the River Don.
- Replacement of large penstock sluicegates on Bentley Ings that were stolen for sale as scrap metal.
- Sinking of 500 concrete piles for new flood defences at Stainforth.
Rotherham- Construction of new washlands between Magna Centre and town for storage of excess water to prevent river bursting its banks, plus better defences.
Barnsley- More than £1 million to repair and improve embankments at Houghton washlands - a flood storage reservoir upstream of Darfield on the River Dearne, where a 270 metre-long bank will be rebuilt and the sluice from the river extended and improved.
Chesterfield - Study of River Hipper, in the west of the town, to look at management options. Two public meetings have been held.
- Strategic project on River Rother near The Avenue coke works site.
(The Environment Agency spent £547,000 in 2007-8 and will spend £594,000 in 2008-9 on improvements to warning and measurement systems)
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