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Having assessed several ways to reduce flood risk along the River Rother, our solution is to:
Raise and widen the flood embankments along the River Rother and Union Channel.
Set back the flood defences in two places to allow natural processes to occur for erosion control and habitat compensation.
Undertake repair and stabilisation works to Union Channel Sluice and Pumping Station.
Construct two hard defence erosion control sections, one downstream of Union Channel and the other just downstream of Monk Bretton Bridge.
Steel sheet piling will be installed between the two bridges behind Kings Avenue where access is limited,we will be fitting a steel capping beams to ensure the safety of the area and create a more aesthetically pleasing look for the public.
Rye is an historic and beautiful town, so managing the scheme in a sensitive way is paramount. It is vital that we ensure disruption is kept to a minimum during the three-year construction program.
In addition to the communities living directly behind the defenses, there are various structures and features along the river which require special attention, such as:
Historic sluice structures
Eroding embankments
Businesses that sit right next to the river; most noticeably the fishing fleet, the golf club and various farms who have evolved with that connection to the river.
Union Channel Sluice
An engineering appraisal concluded that the existing Union Channel Sluice could not be structurally upgraded to withstand a flood event with a 0.5% (1 in 200) chance of occurring in any given year.
Therefore, we’ll be raising the embankments either side of the Union Channel from the Sluice to the Pumping Station (approximately 750m).
We haveremoved the failing sluice doors to make the structure act as a three arch bridge, these doors will be saved and stored on the EA site until adecision is made on their best use.
Union Sluice Kings Avenue
Between the railway bridge and the A259 Bridge, the existing embankment backs onto the residential Kings Avenue. This limits the available land for the proposed raising and widening of the embankment. Clearance of vegetation on the existing embankment has also shown that other repairs to the embankment will be required.
It is necessary to improve the embankments by using steel sheet piling due to the limitations of access to adjacent properties. This will reduce disruption and disturbance to the vicinity whilst proving the same protection from flooding.
At either end, the embankment will be graded to meet the A259 and the railway line.
Kings Avenue, looking downstream, showing the existing embankment
Having assessed several ways to reduce flood risk along the River Rother, our solution is to:
Raise and widen the flood embankments along the River Rother and Union Channel.
Set back the flood defences in two places to allow natural processes to occur for erosion control and habitat compensation.
Undertake repair and stabilisation works to Union Channel Sluice and Pumping Station.
Construct two hard defence erosion control sections, one downstream of Union Channel and the other just downstream of Monk Bretton Bridge.
Steel sheet piling will be installed between the two bridges behind Kings Avenue where access is limited,we will be fitting a steel capping beams to ensure the safety of the area and create a more aesthetically pleasing look for the public.
Rye is an historic and beautiful town, so managing the scheme in a sensitive way is paramount. It is vital that we ensure disruption is kept to a minimum during the three-year construction program.
In addition to the communities living directly behind the defenses, there are various structures and features along the river which require special attention, such as:
Historic sluice structures
Eroding embankments
Businesses that sit right next to the river; most noticeably the fishing fleet, the golf club and various farms who have evolved with that connection to the river.
Union Channel Sluice
An engineering appraisal concluded that the existing Union Channel Sluice could not be structurally upgraded to withstand a flood event with a 0.5% (1 in 200) chance of occurring in any given year.
Therefore, we’ll be raising the embankments either side of the Union Channel from the Sluice to the Pumping Station (approximately 750m).
We haveremoved the failing sluice doors to make the structure act as a three arch bridge, these doors will be saved and stored on the EA site until adecision is made on their best use.
Union Sluice Kings Avenue
Between the railway bridge and the A259 Bridge, the existing embankment backs onto the residential Kings Avenue. This limits the available land for the proposed raising and widening of the embankment. Clearance of vegetation on the existing embankment has also shown that other repairs to the embankment will be required.
It is necessary to improve the embankments by using steel sheet piling due to the limitations of access to adjacent properties. This will reduce disruption and disturbance to the vicinity whilst proving the same protection from flooding.
At either end, the embankment will be graded to meet the A259 and the railway line.
Kings Avenue, looking downstream, showing the existing embankment
Union Sluice
Kings Avenue, looking downstream, showing the existing embankment