2 May 2012
Harriett Baldwin today congratulated and thanked the Environment Agency team after her constituency's five new sets of flood defences all passed their first stress test. But the MP added that her campaign was not yet over and areas including Tenbury are still are risk from flooding. She said: “I am grateful for the regular updates from the Environment Agency which tell me that our new flood defences are working well and that they are doing their job. “We have spent a great deal of money helping build appropriate flood defence schemes in the county since the disastrous floods of 2007 but there is still much work to do. “We all look forward to the completion of defence works in Kempsey and Upton and hope this is the last year that flooding blights homes and businesses there. “However there are still areas which have to exist without proper flood defences and I will continue to campaign for areas including Tenbury which still suffer in periods of heavy rain. "I hope that thanks to new flood defences these five communities - Pershore, Uckinghall, Upton, Kempey and Powick - will never feel at risk of flooding again.”