Project Groundwater

Project details

Full project title: Project Groundwater 

Duration: 1 April 2024-31 March 2028

Funded by: 

• Defra
• Environment Agency
  

• Professor Alice Moncaster (Academic Principal Investigator at UWE Bristol)
• Dr Karen Potter (Academic Principal Investigator at Open University)
• Claude Nsobya (PhD candidate at Open University)
• Jed Ramsay (Project Principal Investigator at Buckinghamshire Council) 

Partners:

• Many other industry partners

Project summary

Project Groundwater supports communities to be more resilient to groundwater flooding. The six-year programme is working with communities in nine high-risk flood areas of the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs. It is led by Buckinghamshire Council in partnership with five other local authorities and Flood Community Groups.

This project is funded by Defra as part of the £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programmes which is managed by the Environment Agency. The programmes will drive innovation in flood and coastal resilience and adaptation to a changing climate.

Visit the Project Groundwater website