Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire Asset Performance

What is Asset Performance?

Asset Performance is about checking and looking after assets like flood walls, riverbanks, and barriers that help prevent flooding. Our teams regularly inspect assets and carry out maintenance activities to make sure they are working properly and safely.  

We use our assets to manage water as it flows through rivers towards to the sea. We may slow or speed up water flow to reduce flooding. Or we may hold and regulate water flow for navigation and recreational purposes, or for water abstraction and biodiversity needs.

We use our permissive powers to carry out maintenance, improvement, or construction work on watercourses known as ‘main rivers’ to manage flood risk and protect the environment. And we work with landowners who are usually responsible for maintaining them, ensuring their actions do not increase flood risk.


What you will find on this page

This page is for all communities and other stakeholders with an interest in the work our Asset Performance teams do across Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. For 2026-2027, this will be our digital platform where we will share:

  • information about the activities we do,

  • short videos of our teams doing the work on the ground,

  • useful links to help you with flood risk actions,

  • and instructions to find out what maintenance we are doing in your community.


We want you to get involved!

To make sure this page meets your needs, we will create surveys throughout 2026 and 2027 for you to tell us whether you are finding the page useful and what more information we could provide.

You can stay up to date by:

  • Registering with Engagement HQ to get the most out of this platform and to interact with some of the tools available on this page. See the information panel to register.

  • Use the register button to subscribe to this page to add it to those that you follow.

  • Regularly checking this page for updates in our news feed section, public events, and asking for your input.

Further information

If you have a question, please check our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section in the information panel. 

If you can't find the answer to your question in our FAQs, you are welcome to contact us using LNenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk and we will get back to you. Please include 'Asset Performance' and your parish in the subject line.


What is Asset Performance?

Asset Performance is about checking and looking after assets like flood walls, riverbanks, and barriers that help prevent flooding. Our teams regularly inspect assets and carry out maintenance activities to make sure they are working properly and safely.  

We use our assets to manage water as it flows through rivers towards to the sea. We may slow or speed up water flow to reduce flooding. Or we may hold and regulate water flow for navigation and recreational purposes, or for water abstraction and biodiversity needs.

We use our permissive powers to carry out maintenance, improvement, or construction work on watercourses known as ‘main rivers’ to manage flood risk and protect the environment. And we work with landowners who are usually responsible for maintaining them, ensuring their actions do not increase flood risk.


What you will find on this page

This page is for all communities and other stakeholders with an interest in the work our Asset Performance teams do across Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. For 2026-2027, this will be our digital platform where we will share:

  • information about the activities we do,

  • short videos of our teams doing the work on the ground,

  • useful links to help you with flood risk actions,

  • and instructions to find out what maintenance we are doing in your community.


We want you to get involved!

To make sure this page meets your needs, we will create surveys throughout 2026 and 2027 for you to tell us whether you are finding the page useful and what more information we could provide.

You can stay up to date by:

  • Registering with Engagement HQ to get the most out of this platform and to interact with some of the tools available on this page. See the information panel to register.

  • Use the register button to subscribe to this page to add it to those that you follow.

  • Regularly checking this page for updates in our news feed section, public events, and asking for your input.

Further information

If you have a question, please check our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section in the information panel. 

If you can't find the answer to your question in our FAQs, you are welcome to contact us using LNenquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk and we will get back to you. Please include 'Asset Performance' and your parish in the subject line.


  • It's June! Our topic this month is...

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    What are Asset Performance Teams' legal obligations?

    Our Asset Performance teams have several maintenance activities that we have a legal obligation to complete each year. We must meet health and safety obligations to ensure our assets are safe for or workforce and the public, and meet relevant habitat obligations. We must also maintain eel and fish passes, and Flood Storage Reservoirs.

    Here is a little clip of our field team at work maintaining an eel pass:

    To find out more, check out our FAQ: What are Asset Performance Teams' legal obligations?

    What are Asset Performance Teams' legal obligations?

    Our Asset Performance teams have several maintenance activities that we have a legal obligation to complete each year. We must meet health and safety obligations to ensure our assets are safe for or workforce and the public, and meet relevant habitat obligations. We must also maintain eel and fish passes, and Flood Storage Reservoirs.

    Here is a little clip of our field team at work maintaining an eel pass:

    To find out more, check out our FAQ: What are Asset Performance Teams' legal obligations?

Page last updated: 18 Jun 2026, 12:07 PM