Written by The Scottish Flood Forum has released two new factsheets for flood victims and flood affected communities.
The factsheets can be found here.
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Daily archives for November 15th, 2009
Flood Alarm
Freuchie Mill now has a hand held air horn to signal a flood emergency. If you are first to spot the beginning of a flood then bang on the door of No 15 and we’ll get the alarm sounded. You could also use your car horn to signal an emergency situation. It is advisable to respond immediately to the air horn or a car horn sounding in a strange manner.
Get your car out of Freuchie Mill when the alarm goes off and put it up on Freuchie Mill Road or across in the main part of the village. DO NOT park on the bridge area or on the slope up to Freuchie Mill House as this prevents the emergency services from doing their job.
Residents at Green Tree Brae have flood alarms mounted to warn of the rising burn levels. We’re relying on residents at risk warning each other to the rising water level.
We will be looking into automating the alarms and monitoring over the new month or two, including the possibility of SMS (text) messaging, weather data and a webcam image of the area. More details as procedures and systems develop.
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Happy Birthday
Freuchie Flood Action Group would like to wish the Scottish Flood Forum a Happy Birthday.
It is hard to believe a year has passed since Paul Hendy invited us along to the launch of the Scottish Flood Forum. The Scottish Government has resourced an important and worthwhile project for the hard hit flood victims of Scotland. Paul has been invaluable to us over the last twelve months and we hope our experience and local knowledge has been of some use to him.
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Flood Door Guards Fitted
Following the flood near miss two weeks ago, Freuchie Mill residents have today installed the Floodplan Door System on a number of properties to provide protection from the ingress of flood water via the front and back doors.
Photo: Homes protected by the Floodplan Door System
There are still a couple of private house to be done and Kingdom Housing has informed us they will be fitting Flood Door Guards from Flood Stoppers within the next week or two.
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