Invergowrie residents have been requested to supply their views on the findings of a flood defence survey of their space.
The council’s Pure Flood Administration (NFM) research goals to enhance understanding of flood dangers to properties and companies in and across the village.
Carried out by consulting engineers Sweco the research additionally explored the potential pure flood administration choices accessible to handle, and the place potential, scale back the recognized threat.
The research highlighted that its projections had been based mostly on a one in 200 yr flood (the flood with a 0.5 per cent likelihood of occurring in any given yr) with specific concentrate on Invergowrie Burn, Fowlis Burn and Lochee Burn.
The village has skilled extreme flooding prior to now from the Invergowrie Burn and different small watercourses.
In August 2004 the Invergowrie Burn overflowed, affecting properties on Important Road, Burnside Street, Balruddery Farm and the highway at Boniface Street and Boniface Place.
In January 2011 the burn overflowed, affecting roads and a residential property and the latest flood was recorded in January 2016 when one residential property flooded.
Beneath the Flood Danger Administration (Scotland) Act 2009, Invergowrie was designated as a Probably Susceptible Space throughout the Tay Estuary and Montrose Basin Native Plan District.
However regardless of the intensive analysis the flood research states groups had been “unable to establish a viable possibility” that offered flood safety for Invergowrie and the encircling space and no flood scheme has been advisable.
In-channel measures, woodland administration, distributed floor water storage, de-culverting watercourses, and eradicating embankments to reconnect with floodplains had been all thought-about as choices.
As a substitute, the research has advisable a lot of localised actions to assist mitigate flood dangers sooner or later.
These embody residents putting in door guards and air brick covers and PKC persevering with to examine watercourses and perform clearance and/or restore works of identified ‘in danger’ areas.
Landowners are inspired to “undertake sustainable land use administration and personal NFM measures”.
The report additionally suggests the implementation of a monitoring technique alongside the Invergowrie Burn and its tributaries, such because the set up of river depth/circulation gauges.
The report provides: “[Introduce] extra detailed evaluation of a number of buildings which can affect flows reaching Invergowrie. This contains a big embankment throughout the Balruddery Burn, in addition to a number of culverts and buildings alongside the higher Fowlis Burn.”
Regardless of the dearth of advice the views of the area people have been sought on the draft outcomes of the research with the deadline set for at the moment (September 23).
It concludes: “Residents are inspired to supply their views on the draft research findings and proposals. The NFM research will then be up to date and finalised.’’
The report may be discovered at https://seek the advice of.pkc.gov.uk/communities/invergowrienfm/