Appenidx 3 - Roles and Responsibilities - Flooding
Perth and Kinross Council · 18 December 2024
Back to Scrutiny and Performance Committee — 18 December 2024 and its agenda
Text extracted from the council's PDF. Layout and reading order may differ from the original.
Page 1
Appendix 3 Roles and Responsibilities – Flooding Perth and Kinross Council • Design, develop, operate and maintain Perth and Kinross flood defences and schemes that are in place, in respect to the advice, warnings and alerts that SEPA publish. • Local Resilience Partnerships are the Scottish Government’s approach to emergency planning and civil contingencies. PKC are members of the Tayside Local Resilience Partnership along side other Local Authorities in Tayside, NHS Tayside, Public Health, Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Representatives from SEPA and the MET Office attend meetings when there is a weather flooding risk. • The Incident Management Team for Perth and Kinross is PKC’s local response and will stand up when required. • All Services and the Health Social Care Partnership are invited to attend the annual Winter Weather Preparedness to make sure people are ready for any emergency. • Engagement with Community Resilience Groups regarding weather warnings. • Welfare Response Protocol - engagement with those who have been affected by a weather event. • Strong relations with External Partners. SEPA • Gather evidence through the provision of flood maps which will be available on SEPA’s website. • Flood Forecasting – provide weather alerts and warnings (working in partnership with the MET Office) • The Scottish Flood Forecasting Service produces a daily Flood Guidance Statement to local authorities and organisations with flooding management duties. • Weather warnings are communicated to interested parties via text messages to those who are registered, social media, SEPA’s Website, plus additional offline updates to partners. • Develop Flood Risk Management Plans and offer advice to Local Authorities with respect to establishing a Local Flood Risk Management Plan.
Page 2
Scottish Water • Response for the operation of the Public Sewar Network. • Operate Pumping Station at South Inch on the Council’s behalf as part of the cities flood defences. • Sewars are constantly monitored. As water levels start to rise / increased sewar blockages, resources are deployed to support customers and help Local Authorities with flood defences. • Emergency Planning to link to Local Authorities and Local Resilience Partnerships. • Collaborative work with PKC on the operation of Perth flood defences. • In Perth and Kinross, work is underway to upgrade the sewar at Tay Street to reduce the risk of flooding from five hot spot areas. SSE Renewables • Attenuate water, store, and within reason regulate flows. • Cannot stop the water and there are significant river systems that SSER have no influencing assets. • Their operating philosophy is to prevent uncontrolled spill wherever possible. • Support SEPA in their role of ‘Warm and Inform’ during flooding with the sharing of information. • SSER are not a Category 2 responder under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004). SSER are aware of their responsibilities and engage with Local Resilience Partnerships as part of multi-agency response to an emergency. • Pitlochry Dam – Characterised by two Drum gates. The Drum gates are self- operating. When Loch Faskally is full, they respond to inflows. Once flows immediately downstream of Pitlochry Dam attain 425 cumecs, SEPA are notified.