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Dave Wardle - Environment Agency
- Aired: June 2008,
- Posted: 9th June, 2008
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Dave Wardle is the Thames Estuary Programmes Executive at the Environment Agency. He oversees the management of strategic projects within the estuary on:
• Thames Gateway Sustainable Development – Ensuring a quality environment is integral to the development of the estuary’s sustainable communities
• Thames Estuary 2100 – Tackling flood risk in the Thames estuary through the 21st century
• Floodscape – Exploring new approaches to flood risk management with European partners
• Olympics – Ensuring a legacy of environmental improvements
• The Thames Tideway – Finding a solution to combined sewer overflows to the Thames
Environment Agency Thames Estuary 2100
We need to make sure that people realise that the barrier will not actually fail in 2030. The world will be a changed world to some extent, but the barrier wont fail.
Dave Wardle, Environment Agency
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