In January 2024 homes and businesses in Marlborough suffered internal flooding at a scale last seen in 1947. Climate change is expected to increase flood risk. Marlborough is in a chalk catchment, and flood water can come from rivers (fluvial flooding), aquifers (ground water flooding), rainfall (surface water flooding) or all three at once.

Marlborough Town Council has supported Action for the River Kennet (ARK) in the development of a Flood Dashboard which brings together information from the river, groundwater and rainfall level gauging stations that impact on the risk of floods for Marlborough in one easy to find place.

We are hosting a drop-in session at the Town Hall on Thursday 3rd April from 6.30pm – 7.30pm to give everyone with an interest an opportunity to find out more about the Dashboard, learn how to use and understand the information on it.  

The website will be accessible to anyone with internet access - we will make it live on 3 April.

Agenda

6.30pm Welcome and Introduction by the Town Mayor, Councillor Kymee Cleasby

6.35pm – 6.55pm Presentation by Charlotte Hitchmough -
Action for the River Kennet (ARK)

6.55pm – 7.10pm Refreshment Break/Interactive Session

Your chance to explore and experiment with the dashboard - Please bring along your laptop, iPad or mobile phone

7.10pm – 7.30pm Q & A

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