Flood and Water Management

If your school has experienced surface water flooding in the past 3 years, KCC Flood and Water Management team would like to hear about it. We are keen to work with schools and  provide advice to help manage surface water flood risk.

If you’re experiencing  internal flooding, or flooding that impacts access to the school, we would like to work with you to understand the sources of the flooding and how this can be managed. Projects could be part- or fully- funded by KCC.

Please contact flood@kent.gov.uk with details of the flood incident/s, such as:

• Dates of flood
• Duration of flood (minutes, hours, days, weeks)
• Internal and/or external flooding
• Depth of water
• Suspected cause of flood (blocked ditch, runoff from agricultural land/ urban areas/ highways, failure of flood defence, watercourse, sewers, blocked drains)
• Are you a member of the governments Risk Protection Arrangement for schools?  If you are a RPA member, have you reported and claimed for the flood event under the RPA?
• Did any emergency services respond to the flooding?
• Any images/videos of the water pooling

For case studies of the work the KCC Flood and Water Management team have achieved with schools, please see; St Katherines School SuDS in Schools and SuDS planters in schools - Kent County Council.