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šOnline, via Microsoft Teams
š Wednesday 15th April 2026 | 10:00 ā 11:30
š§āš« Jake Senior, University of Leeds Researcher, Tetra Tech Senior Consultant
Event Description
Would you like to know about how landscape hydrology interacts with urban drainage systems?
And how does this create both risks and opportunities?
This training is the next free session, running after Easter, as part of the Blue Green Infrastructure Training within the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP).
This session provides an introduction to how landscape hydrology interacts with urban drainage systems, creating both risks and opportunities. We will explore the role of Infiltration and Inflow in contributing to Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) spills and discuss how Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) can be retrofitted at strategic scales to reduce spill frequency and volume. The session is being delivered by Jake Senior, a senior consultant atĀ Tetra TechĀ and a researcherĀ at theĀ University of Leeds.
Learning Outcomes
After attending the session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the purpose of CSOs, understand the associated environmental and operational risks, and recognise how current legislation is driving solution development.
- Describe natureābased hydrological processes that exacerbate CSO spills and identify the key challenges these pose to the water industry.
- Evaluate how natureābased solutions (including SuDS) can be implemented to mitigate CSO spills, along with the practical challenges of deploying these measures at scale.
Who can attend
This event is aimed at those working in local government teams with a responsibility for flood risk management or teams looking to upskill in the area. Teams within the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water can also access this training.
Due to the nature of our funding, attendees must be working in the Yorkshire region.
Please contactĀ [email protected]Ā for further information on place availability.
About the programme
The Blue Green Infrastructure training programme is a West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) project that addresses an urgent need for stronger skills in flood risk management and climate resilience across Yorkshire.Ā
There is a critical gap in capacity and skills, which is a risk to the delivery of flood reduction and resilience benefits in the region. The work is funded by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (YRFCC) and will deliver a pilot training programme administered by iCASP and water@leeds at the University of Leeds.