Is there such a thing as 'independent'?
Great newsLooks like ITV are going to be covering this on the 6 o'clock news tonight, stop the floods Facebook page says they're film just now.
When they built Milton Keynes they built balancing lakes, but very quickly these were allowed to remain permanently filled for recreational purposes so summer floods instead of being very rare became annual events.the highways when they took out the roundabourts on the a1 and the a46 dueling put in water balancing ponds to take any flood water
they never hold any water even though we have heavy rainfall and floods in the ditches and fields
the out lets to their drainage systems is to big so it does not hold the water for long enough
this is all designed by water (hydrological) engineers
imho the the standards laid out for the engineers to work to are not fit for purpose
this will only change when ther is catastrophic flooding on a level with 1950s when 3000 people died
every one hides behind tick boxes and no one who has practical experience which combined with to 21st century climate change rainfall events
the last 20 years the number of heavy rainfall events has mushroomed to 10 or more per year compared to 1 or 2 in the 1970s and 80s
when we get 3 heavy rainfall events in the space of 2 weeks the rivers into the wash cannot take t quick enough
lets hope that climate change is not permenant wet winters
When they built Milton Keynes they built balancing lakes, but very quickly these were allowed to remain permanently filled for recreational purposes so summer floods instead of being very rare became annual events.
Is there such a thing as 'independent'?
Telford was supposed to have a 40-50ac balancing lake put in near teh farm here to handle all the road, factory and house run-off. It was mever built in the end, as the N Telford area had not started development. So now it is all developed the storm water channel is like a raging torrent during heavy rain, with zero maintenance.When they built Milton Keynes they built balancing lakes, but very quickly these were allowed to remain permanently filled for recreational purposes so summer floods instead of being very rare became annual events.
Some record it please or put a link up! Thank you.On local news tonight
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Hopefully interested locals will be allowed to submit evidence to this chap.The EA have brought in an 'independent' reservoir engineer to inspect, he's due to report by 5th Nov
If that is the case, are the Environment Agency inept then?Our initial investigations did not highlight any cause for concern
Not sure if it was 2, or just a big, wrap round one. There is a big one of teh A442 near Madeley interchangeDid I imagine it, @steveR, or did there used to be two balancing lakes at Priorslee? One nearest to the M54 is still there and permanently full, and another next to it, where the latest housing development is?