'Floodpod' set to visit Herefordshire to present ways people can make properties more flood resilient
Events are due to take place around the county over the next two days
A 'Floodpod' is set to visit Herefordshire to advise people how to protect their home or businesses from flooding.
The pod will show examples of property flood resilience to help people understand the various ways they can protect their home or business from flooding to minimise disruption and damage.
Events are due to take place around the county over the next two days, with ones in Leominster and Peterchurch happening today (28 March) and Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye tomorrow.
Ledbury's Mary Long-Dhonau has been a flood campaigner for over 20 years and will be present at the events, she says she hopes this can help people with flooding having such an impact in the area.
She said: "Flood resilience is so important in Herefordshire and Worcestershire because flooding is a regular occurrence.
"Flooding, which is only going to get worse, can devastate a community, with the average person sometimes being out of their home for nine months.
"This will aim to give home owners and businesses ways they can reduce their own flood risk at a property level, things such as flood barriers and self closing airbricks they can use."
Herefordshire Council say it is set to invest an additional £2 million over the next two years in flood resilience and response capacity.