Northumberland to get tourism boost with £26 million flood scheme

A TOURIST destination in #Northumberland, affected by severe flooding in 2008, will benefit from a £26 million scheme. 

The Morpeth flood scheme will protect residents by storing millions of gallons of flood water upstream – one of the largest projects of its kind built by the Environment Agency. 

The scheme will benefit more than 1,000 homes and businesses in the town and is the largest flood protection project completed in the North-East. The upstream reservoir on the town’s Mitford Estate works by storing water – enough to fill more than 560 Olympic-sized swimming pools – when river levels are high.

The scheme has also created a new habitat for wildlife. More than 3,000 endangered white-clawed crayfish have been re-located upstream of the River Wansbeck – one of the last places in the UK where the native species has a stronghold.

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