But we encourage anybody that considers themselves at flood risk to get in touch with us.
It is part of a 100-year plan for flood risk management around the estuary.
Environment Agency flood risk manager Phil Younge urged people to "prepare" for further rain.
The flood risk is predicted to increase in the future due to the effects of climate change.
Plans for a flood risk management scheme are being considered and input from residents is being sought.
Mr Jones also emphasised that the board had been "spectacularly successful in terms of managing flood risk management".
Pete Fox, head of strategy and investment for flood risk management, says standing still is not an option.
The letters raised concerns about the lack of progress in securing future insurance cover in flood risk areas.
Comparative hydrological drought-flood risk modelling at Northern Mexico and West African Sahel region.
This should be the focus of the new Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill.
These are important wildlife sites that 'lock in' carbon and reduce flood risk.
"The build-up to Christmas was worse when the weather was bad but the flood risk was low, " she said.
One in five or 600, 000 people live in flood risk areas in Wales.
It said it would work with Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review the effectiveness of flood risk reduction measures.
It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
The agency said the homes and businesses added to the list were in flood risk areas in Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.
And also a consequence of that development itself changes the flood risk up and down the stream so there is a two-fold risk.
The inquiry aimed to assess the Welsh government and flood risk authorities' progress in implementing the National Strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management.
"We are not concerned about flood risk, " said Chris Ward, executive director of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site.
"The pumps failed on this occasion and made the flood risk much worse and six or seven houses have been very badly damaged, " he added.
But the Home Builders Federation said its members should not have to insure new homes as flood risk is assessed before they get planning permission.
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Mr Bathmaker said the new design was much simpler, with half the number of foundations, which reduced the flood risk, and a swing section for river traffic.
In 2004 a new regulation Technical Advice Note 15 (or TAN 15) to reduce the amount of development in flood risk areas was passed by the government.
"Longlevens was particularly badly hit in 2007, and as a council we are delighted that this scheme will reduce the flood risk to the Longlevens area, " he added.
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Conservative Leader Andrew RT Davies said that flood risk planning systems across the country were not efficient and that this had resulted in an unacceptable amount of communities being flooded.
Planners have also expressed concerns over traffic congestion and road safety as well as the project's impact on flood risk, trees in the area, wildlife, landscape, ground stability and potential contamination.
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Nevertheless, Donald Harleman, a hydrologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that it is possible to use selective operation of the gates, when there is no flood risk, to actually increase flushing.
As part of the scheme, the wall along High Hill will be raised using a combination of Lakeland stone and glass panels which aims to protect views of the river, whilst reducing flood risk.
But Week In Week Out discovered the percentage of schemes being passed now is the same as before the legislation - 745 schemes have been given the go-ahead in flood risk areas since 2004.
It also ignores the considerable value of services derived from the physical, biological, and chemical processes in natural ecosystems, including nutrient recycling, flood risk reduction, water cleaning and storage, climate regulation, and maintenance of biodiversity.
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