Major flooding exercise planned for England and Wales

A large-scale exercise will take place across England and Wales to test national and regional responses to severe flooding from rivers, the sea, reservoirs, groundwater and surface water.

Exercise Watermark will bring together government bodies, businesses, and local communities to trial responses to a range of scenarios which could occur during a flood emergency.

Beginning with a pilot event in November 2010, Exercise Watermark will then go live across England and Wales from 4-11 March 2011. More than 3,500 emergency responders and numerous community groups have already signed up to the country’s largest national multi-agency flooding exercise.

Organizations that will be taking part include 31 Local Resilience Forums, hospitals, the Ministry of Defence, Network Rail and the Flood Forecasting Centre. Companies including Vodafone, EDF Energy and the Bank of England have all signed up to test their business continuity arrangements as part of the exercise.

For more information or to sign up visit www.exercisewatermark.co.uk

•Date: 1st October 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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