Category | Impacts | Data collection trigger | Action |
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Major | Major economic consequences and/or risk to life. | Major incident declared under the Civil Contingencies Act. | Data Collection organisations have staff on site. Additional resource made available in form of sub contracted flood data collection (FDC) team. FDC team to liaise with SEPA, LA & SW staff to target priority flood data collection activities. |
Moderate | Economic consequence. | Inundation of property or diversion of transport. | ‘Business as usual’. LA or SW officer obliged to collect data. |
Nuisance | No economic consequence. | Complaints from the public. | ‘Business as usual’. LA officer may visit site. |