Category: Flood defence

• Development threats to runoff in the Upper Mole Basin

  

  Analysis of potential impacts on runoff and river flow of three developments in the Upper Mole basin.

  sirgeogy

  December 7, 2022

  Conservation, Flood defence, Gatwick airport, hazards, lag time, River Mole

  flood risk assessment, River Mole, River Mole drainage basin

• Flood-Gate? Gatwick Airport flood and water management in the Mole drainage basin

  

  This post explores flood control engineering, water management and pollution controls currently in place at London Gatwick airport.  The post adds detail to the previous article on flood control in the River Mole basin and should provide a fuller understanding of flood control on the River Mole including management of water flows through Gatwick airport and any impact…

  sirgeogy

  November 9, 2022

  Flood defence, Gatwick airport, River Mole

• 2013 Flooding on the River Mole: causes, impacts and management

  

  The River Mole is a modest lowland river in SE England that rises near Rusper in the wooded hilly heartland of the Surrey / Sussex Weald, near Crawley and Horsham. The Mole and its tributaries flow broadly north, through Crawley, around and under Gatwick airport, before meandering through mostly rural countryside to Dorking. The Mole…

  sirgeogy

  January 4, 2014

  flood, Flood defence, Floods, Gatwick airport, hazards, Reigate, River Mole

  flood hazards, flood risk assessment, Gatwick airport, geography, hazard impacts, hazard responses, risk, River Mole, River Mole drainage basin, River Thames