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Sacrificing farm land during a flood to protect properties downstream
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<blockquote data-quote="digger64" data-source="post: 5881800" data-attributes="member: 16562"><p>It’s amazing isn’t it.....agriculture gets the blame for wildlife reductions.....and yet large scale flooding of animal habitats encouraged by humans is considered perfectly acceptable.</p><p></p><p>Dare I ask what happens if there are badger setts on this flooded land?</p></blockquote><p>We had a meeting in the village ,the main land drainage outfall into the river has no fall , 10 years earlier lots of houses had cess pits overflowing into gardens ,well away from the river , as the water table rose, when the main drain was cleared to river after years of neglect it was sorted - they plan to hold water up with felled trees where the outfall is !</p><p>They wanted to encourage wading birds etc but didn't acknowledge they would destroy the habitat of the wildlife already there . They won't listen to anyone , how digging massive holes then leaving large raised spoil heaps on the flood plain makes any difference to the water holding capacity is beyond me also bunging the outfalls back to the river means that when the next surge comes downstream the land concerned is already saturated .</p><p>It's amazing what they define as public goods , the landowner has got payments contracted for several years as it is a trial</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="digger64, post: 5881800, member: 16562"] It’s amazing isn’t it.....agriculture gets the blame for wildlife reductions.....and yet large scale flooding of animal habitats encouraged by humans is considered perfectly acceptable. Dare I ask what happens if there are badger setts on this flooded land?[/QUOTE] We had a meeting in the village ,the main land drainage outfall into the river has no fall , 10 years earlier lots of houses had cess pits overflowing into gardens ,well away from the river , as the water table rose, when the main drain was cleared to river after years of neglect it was sorted - they plan to hold water up with felled trees where the outfall is ! They wanted to encourage wading birds etc but didn't acknowledge they would destroy the habitat of the wildlife already there . They won't listen to anyone , how digging massive holes then leaving large raised spoil heaps on the flood plain makes any difference to the water holding capacity is beyond me also bunging the outfalls back to the river means that when the next surge comes downstream the land concerned is already saturated . It's amazing what they define as public goods , the landowner has got payments contracted for several years as it is a trial [/QUOTE]
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