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Civil protection
Over the last few years, the UK has faced a series of major emergencies such as the Buncefield Oil Depot explosion, the London bombings, pandemics, and severe flooding in 2007 and 2009. There is also a series of potential threats such as those to energy supplies and global IT networks.
Civil Contingencies Act
Over the last few years, the UK has faced a series of major emergencies such as the Buncefield Oil Depot explosion, the London bombings, pandemics, and severe flooding in 2007 and 2009. There is also a series of potential threats such as those to energy supplies and global IT networks.
Ordnance Survey data
Ordnance Survey data is designed to enable any party’s civil contingency data to be geographically referenced and shared across organisations. This provides consistency in cross-organisational information sharing as required by the Civil Contingencies Act.
- Benefits of consistent location data
- Identification of critical sites and vulnerability to risk.
- Measure consequences of loss and model rerouting of alternative supplies.
- Manage impact on service provision down to single household level.
- Increased regulatory compliance and reduced compensation payments.
- Common reference and sharing of data for incident planning and response.
- Establish a range of scenarios to help local responders better prepare and assess potential impacts of an incident
- Evidence based investment strategies.
Anglian Water – optimising emergency water supply
In the recent floods, mapping data was used to help map the locations of nearly 1000 freshwater bowsers being distributed across the Severn region by a fleet of tanker drivers. The ability to pinpoint the addresses in need of water and share the temporary positions of the bowsers was crucial for delivering refills and managing transport logistics.
‘Whilst we work on the basis of one bowser to 250 households in conjunction with the deployment of bottled water to our vulnerable and priority customers, the Government is considering doubling the minimum provision of 10 litres of water per person per day to 20 litres per person per day. We are audited by DEFRA annually, and the worst case scenario is that we face prosecution if we fail to deliver. This solution prevents any potential problems and is easily adaptable to meet any new regulation.’
Caroline Wakelin, Anglian Water