Dean Morrison

Natural Flood Management Officer - High Weald National Landscape @High Weald National Landscape

Flimwell, GB

Designing and delivering Natural Flood Management schemes in the Upper Cuckmere and Powdermill catchments and across the High Weald National Landscape.The work involves a very broad range of tasks - working with local communities, individuals impacted, landowners, contractors, and wide range of stakeholders including the Environment Agency, ESCC flood department, Sussex Wildlife Trust, water companies and others.The job to date has involved scoping the most suitable places for NFM interventions which have the greatest chance of delivering mitigation benefit to impacted communities and landowner support. Designing and delivering pilot projects after obtaining funding and ordinary watercourse/main river, felling or other consents.I use GIS and SCALGO flood modelling software as part of my work, and have written major bids to DEFRA and the EA to extend the project.