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UK’s largest multi-agency National Flood Response Exercise launched
A one day launch event was held at Hawley Lakes in Surrey on 18th November and was attended by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Natural Environment and Fisheries Richard Benyon MP.
Participating agencies included Defra, the Environment Agency, Hampshire Constabulary, Hampshire FRS, West Sussex FRS, RNLI and EDF Energy.
VectorCommand has been chosen to provide the exercise management software to support the delivery of the UK's most ambitious civil protection exercise to date. VectorCommand is part of a consortium that will design, deliver and evaluate Watermark, the largest ever multi-agency National Flood Response Exercise - and the most ambitious civil protection exercise ever to take place in the UK.
Scheduled to take place in March 2011, Watermark is an eight-day exercise that will test responses to a major flood scenario across numerous regions of the UK by Category One Responders.
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The exercise will include the highest level of government involvement through COBR (Cabinet Office Briefing Room), as well as regional and local emergency command centres set up across England and Wales. Peter Midgley, the Exercise Watermark Project Executive, Environment Agency, said: "I am delighted by our choice of professional partners not only for the excellent technology they have delivered, but for their attitude and approach to what can sometimes appear a mammoth task."
The first live event of the Watermark programme was a one day launch event, held on 18th November at Hawley Lakes in Surrey.
All the participating agencies attended the launch and demonstrated their capabilities to the UK's media, including the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Peter Midgley also conducted an interview on Radio 4's PM programme. Click here to visit the Watermark website.
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