Sponge city instead of sponge rural land use

[Bury the Trash]

At least there is a line of thought / acknowledgement of roads and concrete non absorbency..on dealing with run off instead of just targeting farm land

London flooding: Should the capital become a 'sponge city'?

Surface flooding is one of London's biggest threats - so what can be done to combat it?

www.bbc.com

 

[DaveGrohl]

At least there is a line of thought / acknowledgement of roads and concrete non absorbency..on dealing with run off instead of just targeting farm land

London flooding: Should the capital become a 'sponge city'?

Surface flooding is one of London's biggest threats - so what can be done to combat it?

www.bbc.com

Nothing wrong with the idea, but you’d need to start from scratch, which is about as far away as could be from That London.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Nothing wrong with the idea, but you’d need to start from scratch, which is about as far away as could be from That London.

yes probably just more fanciful ideas, for one thing get much water sloshing around and it will be running down into the underground like a ferret down a rabbit hole
come to think of it that would store a few million litres