"js.b1" wrote in message
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3 - Dredge the ruddy rivers properly

Why?
They are not needed for navigation anymore.


Victorians built much of the UK 's infrastructure AND regularly
maintained the rivers, we are not doing this. We are treating the
effect with multi-million pound barriers pushed by enterprise rather
than civil servants tackling the cause and being held to account for
not doing so. We are failing to manage waterflow just as we failed to
manage transportation.

The Victorians didn't pave huge areas so the water would run off into the
rivers as fast as it fell from the sky.
The Victorians didn't build big barriers on the sides of rivers that made
the huge volume of water flow down stream too fast for the downstream areas
to handle.
The Victorians didn't build on flood planes.

I have little sympathy for people that decide to live on existing flood
planes.
I have a bit of sympathy for those that find they are on a new flood plane
caused by someone "fixing" an upstream problem.
The best solution is to demolish the houses that keep flooding.