Yes 15m along the ditch it enters a sewerWhat is at the other end of the pipe? If you dug it out, can the water get away?
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Yes 15m along the ditch it enters a sewerWhat is at the other end of the pipe? If you dug it out, can the water get away?
Sorry, no idea of the land drainage law in Scotland. I'm sure it'll be different to England though.....
Along the Great Ouse? That is a new one to me and certainly not what the EA site mentions about main rivers!https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55586557
Apparently flooding is down to landowners not clearing the rivers!
It's someone's fault & since the EA are perfect it can't be them! You only have to see how they try and deflect responsibility for conflicting flood information.Along the Great Ouse? That is a new one to me and certainly not what the EA site mentions about main rivers!
How do they continually get away with all the crap they say about looking into ithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55586557
Apparently flooding is down to landowners not clearing the rivers!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55586557
Apparently flooding is down to landowners not clearing the rivers!
To be fair it's not the EA quoted as saying that, it's a councillor (who often don't fully understand the intricacies of what they are talking or even voting about in my past river experience). Nobody reasonable would expect the adjoining landowners to maintain the Great Ouse!Along the Great Ouse? That is a new one to me and certainly not what the EA site mentions about main rivers!
To be fair it's not the EA quoted as saying that, it's a councillor (who often don't fully understand the intricacies of what they are talking or even voting about in my past river experience). Nobody reasonable would expect the adjoining landowners to maintain the Great Ouse!
I was involved in the review of the 1998 floods. The flood warnings then failed because the flood was so much higher than past records that the flood warning outstations upstream of Bedford had their power supplies (including backups) knocked out by the rising floodwater so they incident room was running blind. There is no excuse if the same has happened again.
Mr Burrows, for the EA,...
The removal of debris is the responsibility landowners either side of the river, but the EA has "permissive powers to do maintenance over 112km [70 miles] of the Great Ouse catchment," he added.
If one does not clear leaves out of roof gutters they over flow!!!! For goodness sake surely the same applies to rivers, “over time debris /silt will build up and they will overflow”, for goodness sake just plain common senseHow do they continually get away with all the crap they say about looking into it
collecting data etc etc etc
you don’t need a weatherman to tell you when it’s phishing on your head
Nobody reasonable would expect the adjoining landowners to maintain the Great Ouse!
The cost is disproportionate. It's a big river (in UK terms)!Why not?
I wrote somewhere earlier, they blame farmers for silt building up in rivers/streams etcIf one does not clear leaves out of roof gutters they over flow!!!! For goodness sake surely the same applies to rivers, “over time debris /silt will build up and they will overflow”, for goodness sake just plain common sense
The cost is disproportionate. It's a big river (in UK terms)!
Banks used to always be well maintained by the rivers authorityThe width of the river doesn’t really affect the length of the river bank though, does it? Keeping trees tidy should surely fall to the bank owner. Sure, dredging isn’t fair, but bank maintenance (lack of) seems to cause a lot of the issues and I’d place that firmly with the adjoining landowners.
Banks used to always be well maintained by the rivers authority
Thanks for the likes. When I get time I will email EA quoting my post, and I will say at the end , “that those that can’t understand what I am saying must be as thick as two short planks”.If one does not clear leaves out of roof gutters they over flow!!!! For goodness sake surely the same applies to rivers, “over time debris /silt will build up and they will overflow”, for goodness sake just plain common sense
And we all know that the gutter has to be cleaned out all the way to the downspout to be effective.If one does not clear leaves out of roof gutters they over flow!!!! For goodness sake surely the same applies to rivers, “over time debris /silt will build up and they will overflow”, for goodness sake just plain common sense
Years ago in Yorkshire it used to be Yorkshire water authority fil worked there all his days they took pride in their work back thenThe landowner pays for that, yes? I can see why you guys would be disappointed that it wasn’t being done.
Up here, I maintain my own water courses and drainage, so the blame would be mine without doubt. If I was there, I’d be maintaining mine too, as much as I was permitted to do.