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The council is spending £200,000 to protect homes from flooding across the city

Nottingham City Council is spending £200,000 to protect more than 180 homes from ‘significant’ flooding . In documents published on Friday (August 22), the City Council says it will be using £200,000 of local transport funding to replace trash screens on “ordinary watercourses” to protect 184 properties in the city.

Trash screens are metal barriers that are usually used in narrow waterways such as culverts, pipework and drainage systems to prevent them becoming blocked by rubbish and keep water flowing as it should.

The screens are placed at the entrance of culverts “to protect downstream culverts and prevent internal blockages that would cause significant localised flooding”, according to documen

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