Article in this week’s FG about how the Dutch dammed a bay of the North Sea to create Lake IJssel - a freshwater reservoir used to hold floodwater from inland rivers and also used for irrigation during summer, could we not do this here with the Wash, it is perfectly placed near to most of the veg growing land in the country and naturally shaped to make it relatively easy to do as 3 of the sides are already there, plus most of the drainage channels and rivers that cross the Fens flow into it, there is also a massive amount of silt and sand in the Wash that could be dredged to form the barrier.
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Could we copy the Dutch
- Thread starter onthehoof
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
If our government wanted to then yes ofcourse.
Don’t worry,we can import all the food we need,cheaper than our farmers can produce it!
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Somebody is bound to find some kind of rare and obscure little seaweed or creature that absolutely cannot live anywhere else but bang in the middle of where the lake wants to be.
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- Lincolnshire
Could dam and reclaim the wash......
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Some bloody environmentalists will moan about destroying habitat for all the jellyfish!
They wouldn’t want it as farmland, already changing a lot of the best land in the country back to wetland with ‘The Great Fen project’
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
Funny how consumers will complain about the cost of food more often than not either below or marginally over cost price yet they think nothing of purchasing mobile phones or cars that are way overpriced... ?Don’t worry,we can import all the food we need,cheaper than our farmers can produce it!
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
Either that or educate the kloo.....consumers, ja???Hmm,maybe we should re brand as i beef,i lamb,i milk etc.
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
An interesting idea, but there's some technical challenges, not least of which is that the Wash is a flood plain - if it is already full of water when a period of excessively wet weather occurs then you've got to get rid of a lot of water very quickly in order to accept the flow from upstream. There's also issues surrounding handling tidal flows/surges which would probably require significant work on the Great Ouse estuary that would impact on the wildlife in the area.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Hopefully they'll find King Johns lost treasure when they do.
So the Dutch can do it but we can’t??
no we couldn't we'd have to get the dutch to do it like they did the fens drainage
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
How would boats get into kings Lynn docks ?
The Dutch can do it because they've reclaimed huge areas of land back from the sea by draining and using deck off great big pumps to keep it dry.
They want the land in production, unlike this ruddy country.
Yes we could do it, could do anything, but we won't be allowed b cause it'll damage something environmental for sure.
They want the land in production, unlike this ruddy country.
Yes we could do it, could do anything, but we won't be allowed b cause it'll damage something environmental for sure.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
By road
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Shut it and send them to Immingham?
by air
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
I'm not saying that we can't, but it's quite a complex matter - every change we make will have significant knock on effects. Simply damming up either the Ouse Washes or the wider Washes from Hunstanton across to Gibraltar Point will have an adverse effect on wildlife across a wide area including the Washes National Nature Reserve.