Case Study: West Lindsey District Council achieves smarter flood-water management with Ordnance Survey

West Lindsey District Council - Customer Case Study

West Lindsey District Council needed a clear, location-by-location picture of how surface water would behave to make effective emergency plans and protect people, property and infrastructure. Ordnance Survey supplied digital terrain data—notably Land-Form PROFILE along with OS MasterMap Topography Layer and Boundary-Line—which was used alongside a web-based GIS (StatMap Earthlight) to model slopes and surface-water flow for the council’s planning teams.

Using Ordnance Survey’s Land-Form PROFILE and mapping layers, the council integrated slope-direction and contour modelling into its corporate GIS to pinpoint problem areas, prioritise resources and plan emergency routes and sandbag locations. Ordnance Survey’s data helped produce strong evidence that secured government funding for three completed flood-prevention schemes (a fourth began in mid‑2011), made West Lindsey the only Lincolnshire district to win such funding, and expanded joint flood-prevention work with Lincolnshire County Council.

West Lindsey District Council

Jeannette Anderson

Corporate Systems Officer