
Pictured demonstrating the spray can tool are Dr Stephanie Bond, iCASP impact translation fellow and Professor Steve Carver.
We are asking practitioners or members of the Calderdale community whose role is connected with or who have experience of flooding, flood resilience or natural flood management in Calderdale to help us test an online map-based tool.
This is part of a West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP) Accelerator project (Work Stream 5) which focuses on developing collaborative approaches to collect local knowledge and experience on flooding in the Calder Valley.
The tool was originally developed by University of Leeds and can be used to identify:-
- which places flood frequently and suffer the deepest flooding?
- how often this happens and what is the impact of the flooding?
- how they think climate change will affect future flooding?
- which areas upstream are causing the flooding within the valley and what interventions might reduce this in future.
It uses a Google Map base with a spray can tool that allows users to spray ‘paint’ on the map to highlight things like which locations in the Calder catchment flood most frequently.
Respondents are also asked in the anonymous survey to provide detail in text boxes about these locations by responding to questions such as how often does the place flood?
All spray patterns and the responses will be analysed to build up a broad picture of what stakeholders think and understand about flooding in the valley.
The WYFLIP project is being led by Dr Steve Carver and Dr Jonathan Carruthers-Jones at University of Leeds and Dr Jonny Huck at University of Manchester.
We want to improve our knowledge of public perceptions of flooding and the links between land use, management and climate change in the catchment with the ultimate aim of reducing flood-related impacts in the future.
The data will be analysed to look for common patterns and understandings and used to inform future flood management in the Calder Valley said: Professor Steve Carver.
Deadlines for responding to the survey is the end of November. We will share our findings with the community in the New Year.
It is available at Welcome to West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme(map-me.org) [map-me.org] and is best carried out using a computer or laptop with a mouse or track pad.