Watercourse assessment, clearance and repair schedule

The North Ayrshire water body assessment and clearance and repair schedule 2024/25

This schedule details the planned water body assessments and clearance and repair work to be carried out under Sections 18 and 59 of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009.

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Version: F/2024

Date originated: April 2019

Prepared by: North Ayrshire Council’s Flooding team, Cunninghame House, Irvine KA12 8EE

Revision list:

1. Revision No: F/2019; reason for issue: finalised document; date of issue: April 2019.
2. Revision No: F/2019(A); reason for issue: update of lists 2 and 3; date of issue: September 2019.
3. Revision No. F/2021; reason for issue: update asset descriptions; date of issue: May 2021.
4. Revision No: F/2024; reason for issue: update of list 3 and assessment list added; date of issue: June 2024.

Clearance and repair works

The Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (the Act) places a duty on local authorities to assess relevant bodies of water (other than canals) in its area for the purpose of ascertaining whether the condition of any such body of water gives rise to a risk of flooding. Where a water body is assessed as giving rise to flood risk, and the Council considers that clearance and repair works would substantially reduce that risk, then the Council must prepare a schedule of those works and carry them out.

The Schedule of Clearance and Repair is presented in Lists 1 to 3 of this document. The lists include a description of the trash screens (list 1), watercourses (list 2) and culverted watercourses (list 3) that have been assessed as requiring regular routine inspection and clearance and repair work to substantially reduce flood risk.

Reactive works will be carried out after inspection and prioritisation of problems as conditions dictate.

Only works that would reduce flood risk can be undertaken under the Council’s flood risk management powers and duties.

The listed inspections and works may be subject to variation depending on external factors such as funding, site specific constraints, operative safety and extreme weather conditions, for example: drought, storms, snow.