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<p>The Government-funded New Dimension project saw the deployment of 50 High Volume
Pumps (HVP) positioned across the country, with 46 allocated to 38 English Fire and
Rescue Services and four in Scotland; an additional Strategic HVP was located centrally.
There are four mobile HVPs in Wales. Under the Fire Rescue Service mutual aid arrangements
Wales also have access to all of the strategic assets in England. The planning assumptions
for a major incident involving man made or natural flooding, assumes a minimum of
one HVP will be mobilised to respond to an incident within a maximum of two hours
of request.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency holds a range of strategic incident
response supplies at its depots across England, including:</p><p> </p><p>· three 12
inch pumps</p><p> </p><p>· six24 inch pumps</p><p> </p><p>· 425 smaller mobile pumps</p><p>
</p><p>· 3.8km of demountable and temporary flood defences</p><p> </p><p>· 21 sandbag
machines</p><p> </p><p>The larger 12 and 24 inch pumps can be deployed within 24 hours.
The Environment Agency also has access to a further six 24 inch pumps through its
contracted suppliers.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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