Hawick Flood Protection Scheme

Overview

In recent years, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, through its Local Flood Risk Management Plan, identified Hawick as being at severe risk of further flood events in the future and put the town on its priority list for action to be taken to reduce the risk.

The £93 million Hawick Flood Protection in the Scottish Borders is nearing completion of its primary aim to protect over 900 business and residential properties from the effects of a 1 in 75 year flood event.  The project has, however, also delivered multiple benefits in the form of active travel routes, upgrading trunk road assets and improving the resilience of Scottish Water infrastructure.

The presentation will discuss the ways in which these multiple benefits were achieved, the challenges along the way to delivery and what lessons can be learned for similar future projects.