Editing Alcester (section)

==Flooding==
[[File:Alcester Flood - July 2007.jpg|thumb|right|Flood in July 2007]]
The [[River Alne]] and [[River Arrow, Worcestershire|Arrow]], which join on the outskirts of Alcester, have occasionally [[flood]]ed and on a few occasions engulfed part of the town. The last occurrences were in 1956, 10 April 1998 (Maunday Thursday) and on [[2007 United Kingdom floods|21 July 2007]] when 200 homes were left uninhabitable.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=http://www.activetunnelling.com/news.asp?newsid=9 |title=Tunnelling |access-date=1 November 2014 |archive-date=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101201522/http://www.activetunnelling.com/news.asp?newsid=9 |url-status=live }}</ref> In response to the severe flooding of 2007 Alcester flood scheme completed an underground storage tank with a 3.25 million litre capacity in June 2011,<ref name="auto"/> costing just over £1 million. The scheme attracted funding from the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee's Local Levy with contributions from [[Warwickshire County Council]], [[Stratford-on-Avon District]] Council and Alcester Town Council. The scheme included work on the two [[pumping station]]s located at Bleachfield Street and Gas House Lane.<ref>{{cite web |title=Environment Agency |url=http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/142209.aspx |url-status =dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202123739/http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/142209.aspx |archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref>