Cumbria flooding

SciNeT said:
Well maybe they're immigrant looters, the Police would need to be racially sensitive, we saw the same in Rotherham few years back.
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them darn refugees - coming ere stealing our jobs, stealing our flooded - oh , wait:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03d7gnr

Better not mention them muslamic groups helping out either:

Muslims Helping With UK Flood Response But Britain First And EDL Nowhere To Be Seen
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...n-first-english-defence-league_n_8886142.html



Go back to the Britain First facebook page bud and stick to spreading your hate there. In the meantime the rest of us Humans can worry about helping out our communities, rather than trying to divide them.
 
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OldCoals said:
Isn't the risk with dredging that you move the water faster to somewhere down stream that can't cope?
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Pretty much, most flood defences and things like dredging are basically about moving the water away from the "defended" area faster.

Unless you have somewhere to move it to that can actually hold, drain, or slow it down you're just moving the problem from one section of the river to another.

You need things like flood plains, better local drainage (to stop the water needing to go into the river/drains so fast) etc to help slow it.

When my parents built their garage one of the conditions was they had to have it drain into a "soakaway" rather than into drains so that it wouldn't increase the load on the drains.
Unfortunately a lot of houses that were built orginally with natural drainage (front/back gardens) have lost that to either extensions and garages or paving over and parking, so even in existing towns/housing developments a lot of local drainage has been lost (IIRC a couple of years back* the government changed the rules about paving over grass I think).


*I suppose better late than never.
 
was posted on page 6 or something I think.

Same issue stands as I mentioned then, the idea is great, but what about mud/litter/general leaf grime blocking it up and making it useless in a short amount of time.

I reckon it would be amazing for 1 winter, then the next you would realise its completely blocked and the same as normal tarmac.
 
For that to work you either need drainage underneath the tarmac to divert the water to proper drainage or the ground underneath must be capable of soaking up water.

Part of the reason Cumbria flooded is because the ground was saturated, so even with a massively permeable material on the surface, if the ground underneath is saturated it won't drain away.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35246752

Experts are warning that plans to allow farmers to clear water courses on their land could make floods worse in towns.
The proposals, which are subject to parliamentary approval, allow farmers to clear drainage ditches and streams without asking permission.
Farmers had complained that the Environment Agency was micro-managing flood control.
But academics told BBC News that diverting water off farmland could increase floods where people live.
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Just remember that for the next floods if farmer are allowed to push more water into the watercourses faster.
 
surely building houses in floodhit areas is easy..the ground floor is made a not habitable area? make them taller and have car parking or a utility room ground floor and all your living accomodation 1st and 2nd floors? presumably this then breaks some sort of disability or access law though..there must be a workaround though
 
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