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The Lowdham Cocker Beck Flood Alleviation Device will have cutting into an embankment of the Cocker Beck and utilizing compacted soil and extremely-low carbon concrete to salvage a raised reservoir.
It is anticipated to be completed in spring 2026 and once constructed will present almost about £50m price of advantages to the village and the native economy.
The flood storage assign is being built upstream of the village will doubtless be in a task to delay to 100,000 cubic meters of water in times when the Cocker Beck, a tributary of the River Trent, floods, conserving water back from inundating the village.
Lowdham has a long history of frequent floods, most lately in 1999, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2019 and in 2020 inflicting injure to residents and vital injure to properties and possessions.