Discussion > Floods, dredging & the EA Environmental Agency
This November first there were floods in Matlock & Sheffield
and Sheffield after effect was flooding of the river Don in Fishlake
Meanwhile in South Lincolnshire and Barney the River Barlings Eau broke through the drainage bank in the same place as 2007
and created a 1,000 acre lake with a farm in the middle.
Paul Homewood has a post
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/eu-rules-expose-britains-flood-defences
stewgreen
Today, Looks like CaRT + Environment Agency screwed up again.
Worksop flooding made FAR worse by CaRT refusing to open a sluice
(after 15 hours a fireman defied them and opened it)
– will we get the “we can’t explain due to National Security concerns” defence again?
Tomo is referring to Canal and Riverside Trust dam incident in Derbyshire in August
The town of Whaley Bridge was evacuated due to serious damage to the town's Toddbrooke Reservoir and dam.
The CaRT released a report into how it happened, but redacted large parts claiming national security.
stewgreen
As far as both entities (EA + CaRT) are concerned we are imho looking at quite the worst sort of "service" that the public sector is capable of delivering.
The levels of competence are simply pitiful and non-jobs abound. CaRT last time I looked had 3 full timers dealing with PR for the SW alone. The EA has an overstaffed PR department as well.
Both the organisations are toxic as far as service to the public is concerned and it isn't a stretch to believe they exist in large part to service the whims and fancies of the workforce rather than actually provide a service. Straightforward corruption is not unknown.
The EA persecuted and managed to shut down a whistleblower website (now a resurrected shadow of its former self)
tomo
EA-PR predictably lurches into action
mind you - an entire article without "climate" in it - apart from links added by the Threeps.
tomo
just now BBC local news the local Enviro reporter Paul Murphy just did a Global Warming advert
2 minutes long with Theresa Villiers of EA and a scientist voice saying
'this is CC the new future , such flood events will become more common with CC
.. warmer air means atmosphere picking up more moisture.
.. and the Jetstream moving will bring more floods'
..The same BBC guy in May did a similar advert saying 'Here I with the farmers at a half empty river, cos *drought* is the new future'
.. The Wainfleet floods started 4 days later
stewgreen
ITV local news was live from Fishlake
concentrating mainly on the work of volunteers
no mention was made of Climate Change
... a segment of the BBC prog did cover volunteers community spirit at a village near us.
It's a little strange cos the village is high on the cliffs above the Humber.
So is not a place I would expect to have standing water.
Their sandbagging would have just been about diverting the
stewgreen
http://insidetheenvironmentagency.co.uk/
Unfortunately stagnated ..no new posts in 3 years
stewgreen
Likewise excellent
but not recently updated
http://www.floodpreventionsociety.org.uk
stewgreen
Ha you beat me again
Times : The Environment Agency ignored warnings for more than a decade about the risks of flooding on the River Don in South Yorkshire
Janice Turner's article adds that Bentley locals dont respect any politicians
Their MP Ed Miliband nor Tories
And get on with self help cos all politicians are useless
In the Letters Lord Donoughue Ex minister of farming
tells of how in 2,000 EA official bragged of rewilding plans and stopping pumping eyc.
stewgreen
6pm today our edition of ITV Calendar spent 5 mins covering Fishlake
They had a local farmer who has 1,000 acres under water
.. He says he’s been screaming for dredging for years.
We saw the first clear video of what happened, unlike in Lincolnshire where there was a bank breach, in Fishlake their was overtopping from the Don which sits above the farmland with very high banks.
The farmer argued that had the Don been dredged deeper there would have been LESS but not zero overtopping.
The EA man totally denied this.
Next the head of the NFU was on..she is a mad greenie, but this time did not push her agenda.
Unfortunately ITV locals news is not available on catchup
And they didn’t put anything on Facebook or Twitter .
stewgreen
Somewhere we have an old discussion thread about the Environmental Agency
I didn't find it in the first 4 pages or archive
We spoke of its culture of chasing Climate Change and nature projects
and taking its eye off the ball re flood prevention etc
Specifically of the way it stopped dredging the Somerset Levels
and then there was catastrophic flooding.
So I'll start a new thread.