Twenty-two flood warnings remain in place within the area, including the River Ouse and River Ure.
People can comment on the draft Ouse to Seaford Head Coastal Defence Strategy until 15 February.
However, the Little Ouse itself had a distinctly milky appearance when I visited in May 2010.
BBC: Little Ouse Headwaters Project restores Suffolk fenland
The body was recovered from the Great Ouse at The Embankment near Shaftesbury Avenue junction.
The River Ouse peaked in the city at just over 14ft 9in (4.5m) on Wednesday morning.
Near Glynde, I crossed the Ouse: the river mucky-banked, beginning to loop as it neared its floodplain and the sea.
The level of the River Ouse in York is slowly falling after more than 100 properties were flooded.
Two flood warnings and six flood alerts are in place for Rivers Nidd, Ure, Ouse, Foss and Derwent.
The River Ouse in York is also being monitored, with the peak expected to be on Wednesday.
Workers were evacuated from the Harvey's Brewery, in Lewes when the flooded River Ouse caused a wall to collapse.
That case involved the discovery of a man's body in the River Great Ouse at Olney, Buckinghamshire, in 1986.
Towns and villages along the river Ouse in North Yorkshire are particularly at risk, with some homes already flooded.
The Environment Agency wants to maintain defences along the River Ouse and coastline between Newhaven and Seaford as sea levels rise.
It is in response to water levels rising on the Ouse Washes.
In East Sussex, the EA wants to maintain defences along the River Ouse and coastline between Newhaven and Seaford as sea levels rise.
BBC: Environment Agency sets up flood defences in South East
Work has started to build a temporary flood defence on a road near the Ouse Washes nature reserve on the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire border.
Cambridge University Boat Club, Cambridge University Women's Boat Club and Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club want to build the new facility on the Great Ouse.
Severe flood warnings in north Yorkshire on the Ouse and 10 sites in York, where at least 1, 000 homes are flooded, downgraded to flood warnings.
The road was closed after the River Ouse flooded during recent heavy rains, with water in the area reaching a depth of 1.35m (4.5ft) in places.
South East Water has applied to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to increase the amount of water it abstracts from the River Ouse.
Rivers such as the Tyne, Ouse and Tone fell to their lowest and rose to their highest flows since records began, within a four-month period of the year.
The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena on the River Great Ouse in Bedford opened in May 2012 after permanent slalom uprights, lines and gates were added to the Duck Mill weir.
Levels of all the main rivers in the area, including the Medina on the Isle of Wight, the Arun and Adur in West Sussex and the Ouse and Cuckmere in East Sussex are being checked.
The Ouse Washes includes a large floodplain which is looked after by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and provides a habitat for the Bewick's swan and whooper swan and wintering birds of prey, including the hen harrier, merlin, peregrine falcon and short-eared owl.
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