Flood protection, flood prevention and flood alleviation

For many years Birch Brothers have worked in conjunction with the Environment Agency, Severn Trent Water and Local Government throughout the Midlands on civil engineering flood protection schemes large and small.

The high rainfall of the summer of 2007 has highlighted the need for a major rethink on anti-flooding measures nationally. We are sure that the problems of flood prevention will be high on the list of government priorities in the months ahead.

How can Birch Brothers help with your flooding problems? Think individually – can you on your own or with neighbours, barrier or bund off your property to prevent future flooding? If so, then we can help you.

Did your industrial unit flood when others around you did not? Why was that? Would for instance a specially designed floodgate have solved your problem? If so we can help you.

Has flooding caused erosion of adjacent land and endangering your property? We can help.

Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd is a highly experienced and respected civil engineering contractor specialising in water control. We may be able to help you overcome your local problem.

Recommendations at the present time if you have suffered flooding:

• Record the highest flood level
• Note where the water enters your property
• If water has entered your property from the ground or drains beneath, make sure you know where
• Check how many properties have been affected
• Did the water come from a watercourse, highway drainage or surface flows from higher land
• Please give us a ring. As a company we don’t practise “insurance chasing” but over the last few months we have felt very frustrated, knowing that some of the local flooding problems we have actually encountered or seen on the television could have been prevented or at least reduced, without major cost.

Initial advice and preliminary site visits throughout the West and South West Midlands are available free. Please call us on 01299 826227 and speak to our M.D., Mr. R. T. Cumming, or email to civils@birch-brothers.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We have undertaken many flood remedial schemes in the recent past. This includes rock armouring work at Cookley near Kidderminster.