1 hr agoBulldozing of Lugg riverbank 'may have stopped flooding'
By Carmelo GarciaLocal Democracy Reporter
The River Lugg in Kingsland pictured this week by Martin Williams
From Hereford Times on line.........
The A419 through Glos. which was dual carriage wayed 20 plus ? years ago has oil traps all the way along. Whether they are emptied often enough and where that goes is another question.
Flood waters generally slow down when they spread out and that's when you get sediment dropping out of the water.
if you dont get the water away , it has two effects, the land does not dry out and so has no sponge effect and secondly the water is still there flood even more when the next rain arrives
I have heard that before, typical of our civil service, they manage the screw up almost everything they touch, that is why one of the most dangerous sentences in the English language is "we will have to work to rule". If George Eustace's animal transport regs pass the consultation phase, he will do the same to livestock farming as our interpretation of the EU Waste directive has done for river dredging. I think part of the problem, is Civil Servants are almost never practical people, and they never ask advice of people who are before they think up their rules (often looking down on practical people too I think).
I read that Italy was once full of deep soil, however how the Romans farmed caused it to be lost, hence why the Roman Empire kept expanding to gain new farmland to grow their crops. I believe farming started in Mesopetania (present day Irac), but I think the way the land was farmed, caused it to lose it's topsoil and end up as desert. Jared Diamond talks about civilisations failing through loss of topsoil.
Not sure where you get your history from but Mesopotamia is still a very fertile region and we have a farmer from there, on this forum. It does indeed require water being very arid but that is lack of rainfall but the ancients put in canals etc which enabled them to grow crops in the region known still as the Fertile Crescent. The main issue may that water usage upstream has cut back the amount which regularly floods and enriches the soil by natural warping
Must of been a heck of a depth before the Romans ruined it....remember watching a Fiat Crawler with a single furrow plough in Tuscany, ploughing one way down hill at around 18 inches to 2 foot deep.....all super soil coming up
Suppose if they don't know any diff to EA there all as clueless together so don't know any alternative , as above the lords and commons used to have people who were not just career politicians.
To make people who are incompetent in the real world with there pointless irrelevant degrees etc employable
It needs someone to keep taking pics of the work done on the river lugg over a year or more, and keep posting it to show how everything comes back to how it was before
RulesCome on Henarar, this is common sense, so obviously will never get into the rules
Suppose if they don't know any diff to EA there all as clueless together so don't know any alternative , as above the lords and commons used to have people who were not just career politicians.
The problem with that is that the elected will only pander to the majority/biggest noises so will either result in totally inappropriate/excessive work, or the rewilding/pseudo greenie work - there will be no well considered middle ground.
