What does the Environment Agency have to say?

The UK Environment Agency is an organisation that monitors flood hazards in the UK. Check out their current warnings for the UK and use their interactive map section to identify the risk in Miss Gardner's home area. Explore the site by doing the following.

• Go to http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/default.aspx then type in Boston to see what the current warnings for Miss Gardner's town are. Feel free to experiment with other places you may know well in the UK.

• For those of you looking to challenge yourselves at GCSE level (flooding features on your end of year exam), read through the sections on what to do before, during and after a flood.

• Explore this interactive map to see the places worst affected in the UK. Type in Boston to locate Miss Gardner's home town on a map. Interactive flood map