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Originally Posted by cashman
But to me the main fault lies with Governments/Councils etc they have consistently allowed "New Housing Stock" to be built in them,
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Couldn't agree more with new developments, cashman, but these villages are hundreds of years old. Some of them were actually on islands surrounded by water when first built.
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Originally Posted by MargaretR
The difference is that the Somerset flooding could have been minimised/prevented if the enviro agency had continued dredging, whereas no intervention is possible to prevent heatwaves and polar chill events.
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MargaretR, you'll notice from the TV pictures most of the flooding is on open farmland. The villages have their roads cut off but they're mainly not seriously flooded themselves and the farmers methods(grassland, cattle) are adapted to working on a flood plain, knowing it will flood.
A lot of the 'rivers' are actually artificial drainage ditches which only work by constant pumping as they're below high tide level. They'll never stop
all the flooding, they weren't designed to.
Should we have to spend millions of pounds to stop some fields flooding and a few roads being cut off every time nature lets rip?
Might be a good time to open an inflatable dinghy shop down there!