The project forms part of the council's Emergency Planning procedures and is
scheduled to go live this month.
Local authorities have been told by the
Environment
Agency to make better preparations for natural disasters following the
damage done by last year's floods across the UK.
Excessive rainfall in July 2007 caused extensive flooding of the Cherwell and
Isis/Thames rivers which traverse Oxfordshire.
Advance warning of a potential flood gives property owners the chance to
prepare and take the necessary action to minimise damage.
"We reviewed the use of our existing system and decided to improve resilience
by introducing the text platform," said John Kelly, county emergency planning
officer at Oxfordshire County Council.
"We believe it is vital that we can give warning to the public and alert our
staff though text messaging."
The council said that it has been using SMS since 2003, but has replaced its
original systems with Text Message Server from network communications company
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