Pipeline helps protect pastureland from future danger of flooding

But chiefs at East Riding Council believe a 100,000 scheme should cut the risk of a repeat.

A pipeline has already been laid between the area of the Westwood,near Beverley Racecourse, known as the Hurn, and an existing tributary of nearby Sister Beck that can carry more than four million litres of water safely away from nearby homes in a 12-hour period.

Work will start later this month on an embankment to channel water from the Westwood into the new pipeline – designed to blend in with the landscape.

Meanwhile East Riding Council and Yorkshire Water are trying to protect Willow Grove and Pasture Terrace where previous floods caused hundreds of thousands pounds worth of damage

The council is two-thirds of its way through 188 projects and has spent about 7.8m.

It has received 4m grants from the EU, 500,000 from Defra and 250,000 from the Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee.

The smallest tasks have involved repair work to pipelines causing just a few thousand pounds while the costliest is a 250,000 water storage scheme in the Raywell Valley to protect 16,000 homes in Cottingham.