Summary
I Have read the recommendations as printed in The Citizen and see nothing that will deal with improving the passage of the floodwater through this area. The 2007 flooding was made worse by councils ignoring warnings about flooding when the south west bypass was built on a bank. My home flooded for the first time since 1947, the Walham electricity station was nearly swamped because the northern bypass was built like a dam, making the water far deeper and flooding far greater over a larger area. I would urge that openings are put through these roads, floodplains are brought back that are behind flood banks and Severn is dredged. The Environment Agency needs to be a force to be reckoned with, not the useless weak agency it is.
These proposals will cost serious money, but as councils and government are to blame for using floodplains as a disposable asset, I won't hold my breath. There really should be a major review of measures to improve what little is left of local floodplains. The proposed Longford development should be scrapped and the status quo kept. Let's not forget that nature repeats what has gone before. Past floods over the centuries have been far greater that the floods of 1947 and 2007. These happened before man destroyed the floodplains. Be warned.See the full content of this document
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Floodplains Must Not Be Built Over
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