I used to live on the edge of a flood plain, our house was, 'the most likely to flood in the village', the EA came and took levels and somewhere I have a copy of the report with our house and drive on the front. The house was built after the 1947 flood levels, the whole of the nearby town would flood first, its has never flooded, although other houses in the villages have, recently. We used to pay a huge amount for insurance on a house that had no history of flooding.
There was a BBC programme about Capability Brown and what the land he owned would have looked like if he had landscaped it, missing out it would have been under water for perhaps three months of the year or more, that area still has water meadows, and an old osier bed.
As a child I spent hours on the beach making dam and pools and I have come to the conclusion that most of the experts haven't got a clue how water really works, and in my experience I would not believe anything the EA experts said. 1/2inch makes the difference between some land flooding or not, they look at their readings and ignore what their eyes see which can change from season to season. After living over thirty years on the edge of the fens it always amazes me how each flood is slightly different in the land it affects, although the close surrounding land looks unchanged.
The IDB only does it seems the easy work, if they can not get a man and a digger in, they leave it, and because of covid it will get left for longer. We sort our own drains out, the DB digger driver annoys me so much I would not pay them to do it.
There was a BBC programme about Capability Brown and what the land he owned would have looked like if he had landscaped it, missing out it would have been under water for perhaps three months of the year or more, that area still has water meadows, and an old osier bed.
As a child I spent hours on the beach making dam and pools and I have come to the conclusion that most of the experts haven't got a clue how water really works, and in my experience I would not believe anything the EA experts said. 1/2inch makes the difference between some land flooding or not, they look at their readings and ignore what their eyes see which can change from season to season. After living over thirty years on the edge of the fens it always amazes me how each flood is slightly different in the land it affects, although the close surrounding land looks unchanged.
The IDB only does it seems the easy work, if they can not get a man and a digger in, they leave it, and because of covid it will get left for longer. We sort our own drains out, the DB digger driver annoys me so much I would not pay them to do it.