Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion Rivers Catchment Flood ...

Sub-area 5
Eastern and Western Cleddau
Our key partners are:
Pembrokeshire County Council
Pembrokeshire Coast National
Park Authority
Local communities
Land owners and managers
The issues in this
sub-area
The area covers the Eastern and
Western Cleddau catchments,
upstream of (and not including)
Haverfordwest. Largely rural, with
dispersed settlements (including
Narberth). The main source of
flood risk is from the Eastern
and Western Cleddau and their
associated tributaries, as well as
from surface water runoff.
Approximately 30 properties are
currently at risk from the 1% AEP
flood event, rising to around 50
properties in the future. This risk is
mainly to people and properties in
small, dispersed communities.
The Cleddau Rivers are designated
a Special Area for Conservation
(SAC) for the importance of their
river habitats.
The vision and
preferred policy
Policy Option 2 – areas of low to
moderate flood risk where we can
generally reduce existing flood risk
management actions.
Our vision is to reduce the overall
level of flood risk management
activity over time. We will follow a
risk based approach to rationalise
our current activities and target our
actions and limited resources to
locations of greatest risk.
Our vision includes;
• increased emphasis on actions
to manage the consequences
of flooding;
• increased community and
individual awareness of their
flood risks and adoption of
actions both can take to help
themselves.
Western Cleddau at Wolf’s Castle
18 Environment Agency Wales Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion Rivers Catchment Flood Management Plan
Actions to implement
the policy include:
Encourage and support our partners
to produce local long term plans
to manage all sources of flooding
to communities. These plans
should include an assessment
of the consequences of flooding
and actions to manage these.
Engage and advise the local
community to encourage people
at risk to take action to help
themselves.
Encourage and support land
use and management changes
by others, where these deliver
flood risk management and
wider environmental benefits.