It's now a year since Filey's long awaited flood alleviation scheme was completed.
The scheme, which was completed last April, came after a number of serious flood events in the town over the last 20 years.
A study looking at possible solutions started in 2008 but it took another 13 years to get a scheme completed.
The scheme has seen the construction of a series of earth embankments, ditches and temporary flood storage areas at different locations around the edge of Filey. Together with new drainage channels and culverts, these are designed to catch the flows of water from surrounding land during extreme rainfall before they reach the town. The flood water is then temporarily stored before being released at a controlled rate into the existing urban drainage system and ravines once a storm has passed.

Construction started in July 2020 and was completed in April 2021.
The Borough Council's head of Projects - Chris Bourne- says that since then they've been monitoring the water levels in the storage area's which were built to stop excess rain water from running in to the town and have been pleased with the results.
The project involved large areas of the scheme to the north of the site seeing a change of use from agricultural land to public open space, which the plans said would comprise of "wildflower meadow, hedgerow planting, signage, picnic benches and a bird viewing area with DDA compliant footpaths."
Chris Bourne says that as well as dealing with the current weather threats to the town the scheme is future proof, with the storage areas built to capture excess rainwater working as planned and having plenty of capacity to deal with future weather events.


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