Fishlake

[Gormers]

How’s folk coping round that area?
Have had flooded land myself so I can imagine what people are going through

 

[Will 1594]

Talking to some one from that area at a sale , he said a friend of his , has water upto 3 quad bales high in his yard and inches away from the house

 

[Courier]

It must be heartbreaking - But there is a bit of a clue in the name....

 

[Gormers]

Heard it’s got into someone’s grain store
It’s not the easiest of land to farm around there so here’s hoping nowt’s been sown & costs are at a minimum

 

[Bald Rick]

Whilst I feel immensely sorry for the poor saps suffering the consequences of the Sheffield and Doncaster flood protection defences, why didn’t anyone “in authority” stop to think about the consequences downstream? Surely the very name Fishlake is a strong clue.
Divkheads

Ah, just seen @Courier posts above. Carry on

Still dickheads mind

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Whilst I feel immensely sorry for the poor saps suffering the consequences of the Sheffield and Doncaster flood protection defences, why didn’t anyone “in authority” stop to think about the consequences downstream? Surely the very name Fishlake is a strong clue.
Divkheads

Ah, just seen @Courier posts above. Carry on

Still dickheads mind

Sorry who are the saps and dickheads?

 

[Bald Rick]

Sorry who are the saps and dickheads?

EA and their ilk who seem blaise about the consequences downstream of their engineering activities upstream

 

[Chap]

Just watched a clip on the news. Think it was in Waites Hay and Straw yard. Heartbreaking.

 

[jendan]

Whilst I feel immensely sorry for the poor saps suffering the consequences of the Sheffield and Doncaster flood protection defences, why didn’t anyone “in authority” stop to think about the consequences downstream? Surely the very name Fishlake is a strong clue.
Divkheads

Ah, just seen @Courier posts above. Carry on

Still dickheads mind

Just said the same thing to the wife.Most of the houses seemed new builds as well........in a fishlake.

 

[primmiemoo]

There hadn't been flooding there for an appreciable time, despite the name (a local on tv has just said a hundred years). They've had unusually high rainfall, and there must have been changes upstream.

Awful for them.

 

[Steevo]

It does make me wonder why the EA can justify what they do.

If an accident occurred in a place of work due to lack of maintenence of a piece of a certain piece of equipment HSE would throw the the book at that organisation.

 

[Gormers]

Looks like EA sacrifices rural populations & businesses just to keep the city dwellers dry

 

[jellybean]

Although I have sympathy for the people in Fishlake do people really buy houses without looking at a map and checking contours, rivers etc? They probably check for broadband coverage and proximity of a reasonable school but seem to forget the essentials. Maybe they think that if it was deemed ok to build houses there then it MUST be ok.
Maybe not possible but it would be good to talk to the guys who did all the groundworks before buying new houses.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

It does make me wonder why the EA can justify what they do.

Planners also need to carry some responsibility.

With sea levels rising (allegedly) and more extremes of weather, no houses should be built on land that has flooded in living memory.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Looks like EA sacrifices rural populations & businesses just to keep the city dwellers dry

I saw some video of flooding near Lincoln where a river has burst onto arable land.

Hundreds and hundreds of acres are 6ft under water, but the EA has no intention of repairing the breach because it is helping to keep water out of the city.

It may be historical floodplain land, but growers/landowners need to be paid/compensated if their land is being used for this obvious "public good".

 

[Spud]

If the slack buggers at the EA maintained the waterways, more of it would be able to be carried in the river, and flooding would be less frequent. Things will continue to get worse, because the short sightedness by which they operate plants willows by riversides...which drop leaves and twigs in the river...which reduces its capacity and speed....then it floods. Remind me what a river is for? Moving water? Not storing water. Funding for farmers to build winter filled reservoirs would be cheaper than repairing flood damage, and do some good in times of drought.

 

[Grassman]

The truth is we had around 4" of rain in 24 hours. A band of rain that just circled round and kept falling on the area.This was on to totally saturated land from recent and prolonged heavy rain. The wettest autumn for a very long time.
There has been flood protection improvements round the Don Valley which prevented major floods in the area. Did this export the problem further downstream?
Seems extremes of weather happen a lot more now so more effort and money is going to need to be allocated to prevent such things.

 

[Cropper]

We keep hearing about £x million being spent on flood defences, wouldn’t it be better spent on flood prevention by maintaining and improving the waterways. I’m always impressed by the waterways in France when driving through - banks always look neat and trimmed, no trees overhanging the water or debris floating in it.

I can’t see the logic of NE etc wanting stuff left rough for the wildlife if it’s all going to get drowned when it floods.

 

[Still Farming]

Terrible, army at last called in allegedly to help?

 

[teslacoils]

Although I have sympathy for the people in Fishlake do people really buy houses without looking at a map and checking contours, rivers etc? They probably check for broadband coverage and proximity of a reasonable school but seem to forget the essentials. Maybe they think that if it was deemed ok to build houses there then it MUST be ok.
Maybe not possible but it would be good to talk to the guys who did all the groundworks before buying new houses.

It's interesting this. If you check the planning flood map, as done when buying a house, you would see that almost all of fishlake village is not in a flood risk. If you drive around the Isle of Axholme, you will also see why the villages are where they are - they are like little islands.

On the other hand, what flood risk zones is the flooded farm near Lincoln in?

Not saying either is good, but should we be slagging off house owners in a village deemed low flood risk, and slagging off the EA for the fact a farm is flooded given the unprecedented quantities of rain. Sad for all involved I'd say.