Vepler logo
v2.154.0

Nearby flood defences on the flood-risk point endpoint

POST /v1/flood-risk/point now returns nearby engineered flood defences (type, distance, condition and standard of protection), plus any defended area containing the point.

Added

  • POST /v1/flood-risk/point now reports the nearest engineered flood defence for a coordinate: its type, distance, condition, standard of protection, maintainer and watercourse, read from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales defence datasets.
  • The defences block also counts how many defences sit within 1km of the point and names any defended area that contains it, so you can see both the closest structure and the wider scheme protecting the location.
  • Natural features such as high ground, beaches, cliffs and dunes are deliberately excluded so they are never presented as engineered protection. The standard of protection is reported only from the current figure, condition is graded on the source 1 to 5 scale, and any value the source does not provide stays null rather than being inferred.

Affected endpoints