{"id":5199,"date":"2024-03-29T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/?page_id=5199"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:36:11","slug":"reporting-flooding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/?page_id=5199","title":{"rendered":"Reporting flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reporting of flooding is crucial for incident response and also for long term planning of flood risk reduction measures. If you have been impacted by flooding but it has not been reported, then the relevant authorities may not be aware of what has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The portal for non-emergency reporting is the Flood Online Reporting Tool: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/swim.geowessex.com\/somerset\" target=\"_blank\">FORT &#8211; Home (geowessex.com)<\/a>. This information is shared with risk management authorities to ensure it goes to the correct organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><large>In an emergency, if you think there is a risk to life, report flooding to 999.<\/large><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For other emergency reporting, who you report the flooding to will depend on the source of the flood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-flood-cause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-flood-cause<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For main rivers: Environment Agency incident hotline (24hr) 0800 80 70 60<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For ordinary watercourses \/ surface water \/ roads: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somerset.gov.uk\/roads-travel-and-parking\/report-a-problem-on-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Somerset Council Report a problem on the road (somerset.gov.uk)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For sewage \/ burst mains: Wessex Water 0345 600 4 600 (24hr) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessexwater.co.uk\/your-wastewater\/flooding\/sewer-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.wessexwater.co.uk\/your-wastewater\/flooding\/sewer-flooding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><small>(Information supplied by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Environment Agency<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting of flooding is crucial for incident response and also for long term planning of flood risk reduction measures. If you have been impacted by flooding but it has not been reported, then the relevant authorities may not be aware of what has occurred. In an emergency, if you think there is a risk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5199\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}