Farm in the flood.

[Lincs Lass]

Murphy's law ,,,What ever can go wrong ,,,Will go wrong ,,friends in the next village found this out ,,they have a bungalow slap bang next to a tiny beck ,,the water goes through a culvert under the road and back in 2007 it couldnt take the sheer volume and the water came into the house ,,it took two years to get it sorted .
They were promised after the rubbish was cleaned out that the beck would never come over again ,,,,never say never ,6 inches through the house again and any chance of now of selling the place has gone down the drain ,unlike the water

 

[teslacoils]

Looks like I'll be having a beach front property in a few years!

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Tempting to start planting the olive grove now as they are also saying we will be hot as Barcelona by 2050.

 

[76masseyman]

I see this farm has made the front cover of this weeks Farmers Weekly

 

[Lincs Lass]

I see this farm has made the front cover of this weeks Farmers Weekly

Have you seen the piece in FW about the bardney farmer trying to dig spuds with a mini digger ,,my sister was at school with him when she was about 7-8

 

[curlietailz]

And yet they keep building on or nr to flood plains. The people who are flooded at fishlake ought to have guessed by their address that it was a wet area.

You know that was the first thing I thought
“They are surprised that FISHLAKE has flooded” hmmmmm

 

[DrWazzock]

Spoke to a chap at Lincoln farmers market while buying some excellent beef from him. Half his farm under water, including bottom layer of his silage and straw bales. 3 out of 4 of the required drainage pumps operated by EA are out of action due to lack of maintenance. Many of his neighbour's have gone on holiday as there is absolutely nothing they can do on their farms till the water level goes down. These pumps are a permanently required part of the drainage system raising water from below sea level into the Humber and they aren't properly maintained. It's not good enough IMO.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Hasnt somebody pinched one of the pumps from Fishlake

 

[Will 1594]

Hasnt somebody pinched one of the pumps from Fishlake

Nothing would suprize me round there , pikey central

 

[Smith31]

Murphy's law ,,,What ever can go wrong ,,,Will go wrong ,,friends in the next village found this out ,,they have a bungalow slap bang next to a tiny beck ,,the water goes through a culvert under the road and back in 2007 it couldnt take the sheer volume and the water came into the house ,,it took two years to get it sorted .
They were promised after the rubbish was cleaned out that the beck would never come over again ,,,,never say never ,6 inches through the house again and any chance of now of selling the place has gone down the drain ,unlike the water

Did they get compensated because the culvert under the road couldn't take the volume of water?

 

[Smith31]

Murphy's law ,,,What ever can go wrong ,,,Will go wrong ,,friends in the next village found this out ,,they have a bungalow slap bang next to a tiny beck ,,the water goes through a culvert under the road and back in 2007 it couldnt take the sheer volume and the water came into the house ,,it took two years to get it sorted .
They were promised after the rubbish was cleaned out that the beck would never come over again ,,,,never say never ,6 inches through the house again and any chance of now of selling the place has gone down the drain ,unlike the water

Did they get compensated because the culvert under the road couldn't take the volume of water?

 

[Will 1594]

You know that was the first thing I thought
“They are surprised that FISHLAKE has flooded” hmmmmm

Read about vermuydon, not much concrete or tarmac and houses about in 1600-s ,either

 

[Lincs Lass]

Did they get compensated because the culvert under the road couldn't take the volume of water?

No ,,insurance covered the house damage

 

[Will 1594]

How would you like ,i think its around 6000 acre on the welney ,ouse washes flooded,built by vermuydon ,for the purpose of catching the extreme rainfall, and this river bank at welmore sluice holding it back .our farm other side of bank has its own drainage system and lifts water in to river around 15 ft

 

[DrWazzock]

Just look folk in the eye whose property and businesses have been flooded and say you ha e done enough or they worth sacrificing. No, they haven't done enough. It's a shambolic mess and should been anticipated. Temporary inundation is maybe unavoidable but for farmland to be flooded for days on end is inexcusable.

 

[DrWazzock]

Tempting to start planting the olive grove now as they are also saying we will be hot as Barcelona by 2050.

My neighbour has planted a vineyard. Yes indeed we could be parched by next summer. More than likely. But are we building in water storage which would alleviate downstream flooding? Of course not. That would be engineering as solution. And that has gone out of fashion.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Just look folk in the eye whose property and businesses have been flooded and say you ha e done enough or they worth sacrificing. No, they haven't done enough. It's a shambolic mess and should been anticipated. Temporary inundation is maybe unavoidable but for farmland to be flooded for days on end is inexcusable.

Its not just the water thats the problem ,all the contamination thats come with it,sewage,oil,all the house hold waste thats been washed along ,,going to take for ever to clean it up

 

[DrWazzock]

Its not just the water thats the problem ,all the contamination thats come with it,sewage,oil,all the house hold waste thats been washed along ,,going to take for ever to clean it up

Plastic rubbish would be a problem but it's surprising how fast sewage breaksdown in the environment. It's organic after all.

 

[onthehoof]

A lot of the problems over here in the Eastern counties is because the main rivers have to flow across miles of almost dead flat farmland to discharge into the Sea. Having (or not) the benefit of gravity makes a huge difference this is why it is essential to keep the channels clear because any debris or silt will very soon cause water to back up.
The Ouse here can often be seen flowig backwards when the tide is high and we’re 25 miles from the sea.

 

[glasshouse]

A lot of the problems over here in the Eastern counties is because the main rivers have to flow across miles of almost dead flat farmland to discharge into the Sea. Having (or not) the benefit of gravity makes a huge difference this is why it is essential to keep the channels clear because any debris or silt will very soon cause water to back up.
The Ouse here can often be seen flowig backwards when the tide is high and we’re 25 miles from the sea.

Thats a great name for a muddy river

 

[glasshouse]

Murphy's law ,,,What ever can go wrong ,,,Will go wrong ,,friends in the next village found this out ,,they have a bungalow slap bang next to a tiny beck ,,the water goes through a culvert under the road and back in 2007 it couldnt take the sheer volume and the water came into the house ,,it took two years to get it sorted .
They were promised after the rubbish was cleaned out that the beck would never come over again ,,,,never say never ,6 inches through the house again and any chance of now of selling the place has gone down the drain ,unlike the water

Why dont they build a wall?