Planning ahead:

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Planning ahead How to write a Community Flood
Plan and the practical steps your community can
take. Lessons from mid-Cornwall John Pegg -
Lostwithiel Town Council Charles Richards -
Par and St Blazey Community Flood Group Barry
Wilton - Mevagissey Flood Watch
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Introduction

• Cornwalls topography
• Flooding
• The Journey

• There are known knowns there are things we know
  that we know.
• There are known unknowns that is to say there
  are things that, we now know we don't know.
• But there are also unknown unknowns there are
  things we do not know, we don't know.
• United States Secretary of Defence, Donald
  Rumsfeld

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How to write a community flood plan

• A flood management plan wont stop all future
  flooding, but will hopefully minimise the impact
• Research
• Government agencies
• Ownership
• Resources
• Timescale
• Responsibility and liability
• Flood wardens
• Judgement call

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Practical steps your community can take

• Communication, communication, communication
• - Public meetings
• - Local press
• - Leaftlet drop
• - Facebook
• Equipment and resources
• Sponsorship

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Lessons learnt

• Dont panic
• Perseverence
• Sharing and working together