Local press? They've no interest in anything outside of the towns... unless it's the fluffy wuffy cutesy pie stuff about little lambykins.... Likewise with the regional news broadcasts & if it's anti-establishment then forget it - there's more important stuff to report like a bunch of people taking ten years to build a timber framed church, even the disgraceful (mis)guided bus system that's already falling apart barely gets a mention these days.
Are they "controlled" when burrowing into the embankments?
Any urban areas likely to get damp.....?
They can’t keep the level high as it’s tidal, but I suppose you could say by lack of dredging downstream they are keeping it higher than it otherwise would be
Most of the urban areas are on higher ground as they developed before the draining of the fens.
By keeping the gates shut at Earith and not utilising the capacity of the Old Bedford they reduce the rate at which the water can flow away, which keeps the level higher than it need be, of course if the 100ft was properly maintained it wouldn't be such an issue.
It baffles me how nobody seems to give a feck about much at all tbh.
Interested enough to pump up the premiums...
Was in a Sussex the other day and a car park was near full of water and I suspect some cars were actually damaged. Why? Because the drain was blocked nothing more, nothing less
On the other thread, 300.000 acres is mentioned.
The EA will prod produce a host of "experts" who will claim that the failure was nothing to do with the work that's been done & provide some semi-plausible alternative reason that shifts liability.
