The Leeds district is at risk of flooding from complex set of multiple sources including: large ‘main rivers’ (Rivers Aire, Wharfe and Calder); small ‘main rivers’ (the Wyke, Wortley, Farnley Wood, Meanwood, Cock, Oulton, and Collingham Becks); ordinary watercourses; public sewers; private sewers; highway gullies and culverts; surface water run-off from fields and open spaces as well as reservoirs and lakes with embankments.
For this reason the Council has developed a co-ordinated approach to managing flood risk by bringing together services with a role in this and by working closely with partner agencies so that there is a consistent approach to the treatment of flood risk. These pages provide detailed information about the work the Council and its partners undertake in this area.