Environment minister
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This one?
thefarmingforum.co.uk
Please someone tell them
Just watched news on bbc 2 politics ,so sheep grazing hills cause flooding.Not one mention of clean the sodding rivers out .It’s not rocket science if you build barriers the water still goes somewhere it needs a Chanel to escape .Plus farmland is our shop floor not a flood plain for the benefit...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
Yes that’s the one didn’t realise it had been put upThis one?
Please someone tell them
Just watched news on bbc 2 politics ,so sheep grazing hills cause flooding.Not one mention of clean the sodding rivers out .It’s not rocket science if you build barriers the water still goes somewhere it needs a Chanel to escape .Plus farmland is our shop floor not a flood plain for the benefit...
its worrying that ea said it, even more worrying is the government believes them
I spoke to an EA guy in person yesterday and found it worrying what he had to say about flood prevention, climate change etc etc. I tried to explain how rivers were regularly dredged and blockages cleared up until the 90’s but apparently dredging is not effective and doesn’t help people down stream. Trees on the moors and hills seemed the popular thinking.
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- Near Beeston Castle
As the cause or the solution? You wouldn't know these days, I don't have a degree in Performing Arts or Lesbianism in the Landscape so my view is irrelevant of course.
Can anyone direct me to a website please to explain this phenomenon of trees taking up water when the soil is at field capacity, followed by extremely heavy rain? I keep searching for an explanation for this but google has so far let me down.
I can indeed see from the second picture;
Improving water quantity
Loss of habitat and biodiversity
Providing grey (wet) spaces for people.
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- Near Beeston Castle
I assume that when the trees float off in the floodwater they block the bridges and thus prevent flooding further downstream.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
until the blockage gives way and sends a 4ft surge downstream....
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
The problem with trees is that it would take 30 year before they hav any effect
My father planted son 20 years ago
And the land they are on is as wet as my land in combinable cropping
All the water out of the sky from now goes into the river Witham and is at Lincoln within 10 hours
My father planted son 20 years ago
And the land they are on is as wet as my land in combinable cropping
All the water out of the sky from now goes into the river Witham and is at Lincoln within 10 hours
- Location
- Lancashire
About 30 years ago one of the narrow valleys above Todmorden was blocked by trees and branches, making a big dam. When it burst it took half a house away. I can see a lot more of that sort of thing happening in the future.
Solution in his eyes, I rolled mine
ollie989898
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goldeneagle
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For £25m you will get a lot of equipment and fuel to maintain the watercourses.
As a taxpayer money should be used to generate best value and at the moment it seems to be squandered on assessment and consultants rather than any real meaningful work.
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My phone screen is not very clear, is she smoking a cigar or eating a sausage?
serf
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- warwickshire
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- Near Colchester
In fairness I think that she was just saying what she had been told by the EA - they had followed the advice from the Met people - who weren't quite correct, mainly because the rain came from an unusual direction.
Particularly since following the Met Office of their weekly 'Deep Dive' into the weather on the youtube, I have had a great deal more understanding of the enormous number of variables and am surprised that they get the forecast so accurate nowadays compared to 40 years ago.
I am not a great lover of our Environment Minister but I don't think that she should be berated for this one - there are dozens more examples of how she should be getting things sorted.
Particularly since following the Met Office of their weekly 'Deep Dive' into the weather on the youtube, I have had a great deal more understanding of the enormous number of variables and am surprised that they get the forecast so accurate nowadays compared to 40 years ago.
I am not a great lover of our Environment Minister but I don't think that she should be berated for this one - there are dozens more examples of how she should be getting things sorted.