No flood warnings in future
I picked up this blog post this morning.
I hadn't realised they were building the new Middle Level at St Germans. My parents used to live in nearby Magdalen and I remember the two huge bridges there which took traffic over the Ouse and the artificial channel.
Strange to think that the risk of flooding appears to be as great as ever - especially to those of us in The Fens - and yet we're dismantling a system that has been in place since perhaps the greatest of floods in 1953. I know it makes economic, and probably practical sense, but the issue regarding spend on flood defences all along the Norfolk Coast is really one of 'at what point do we just sacrifice the people living there or in the hinterland?' Presumably when we are deemed to be of no further economic or practical use to the government?
I hadn't realised they were building the new Middle Level at St Germans. My parents used to live in nearby Magdalen and I remember the two huge bridges there which took traffic over the Ouse and the artificial channel.
Strange to think that the risk of flooding appears to be as great as ever - especially to those of us in The Fens - and yet we're dismantling a system that has been in place since perhaps the greatest of floods in 1953. I know it makes economic, and probably practical sense, but the issue regarding spend on flood defences all along the Norfolk Coast is really one of 'at what point do we just sacrifice the people living there or in the hinterland?' Presumably when we are deemed to be of no further economic or practical use to the government?
Labels: Fenland, flood defences, Magdalen, Middle Level, Norfolk coast, pumping station, St Germans, The Fens
posted by Fencreative | 2:04 PM
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