SWWood- Location: Dover
- Registered: 30 May 2012
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Yes indeed there certainly was alot of global warming dropping on the streets of Dover today. Long, hot, dry summers is what they predicted, the fools.
Anyone still believing this tosh really needs to get their heads tested.
Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
- Posts: 260
Any one got any pictures of morrisons / halfords area in floods?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
i got soaked twice on way to work
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Jeez what a day! Awful. Lightning thunder and torrential rain. Terrible to hear of the flooding all around us. I dunno..a truly terrible summer with little prospects. Ive added a bit to the frontpage as well.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
Shops in London Road yet again were flooded, Buckland Bridge was awash and Charlton Green suffered.
Anyone know anything about Maison Dieu Gardens Car Park, that notorious flood plain were the "hospital" couldn't be built?
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,262
Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Ian's photo's of Barton path, dreadful state of affairs all round
And today is St Swithuns day! They say if it rains today then it will rain for the next 40 days and nights
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That'll take us to (almost) September - just like the song.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ian mentions in Post 1 about the overgrown river, that it could be to blame for the flooding. Here are a couple of pictures taken yesterday at Charlton Green...as you can see the River is very overgrown. This overgrowth would surely reduce the speed of flow and as a consequence the rain water has nowhere to go in a hurry..other than onto the streets. The water was coming up out of drains rather than going down the drains..
All quite au naturelle and clean save for one green plastic bottle sadly.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Thank you Paul.
Iv'e brought up this subject many many times before including diagrams and photos.
Seems I was right, HOW come no one listens.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
Since my comment in post 17 seems to have been missed or ignored I will repeat it.
" my grandson said he overheard two men from the Environment Agency saying some of the weeds were to be removed from the Dour. "
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Sorry Jan, I did mean to reply.
The only thing is.........How much? and when is this likely to happen?
Not in the near future I can bet, I can safely take comments like that from the E.A with a pinch of salt.
Thank you for posting it though, I will not hold my breath.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
From what Jamie told me I gathered there would be quite a lot removed to "take it back how it was" if I remember the phrase correctly, we can but hope.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Terry raises an interesting point there in post 26...despite the almighty deluge no reports of flooding on the 'hospital plain'. If it didnt flood this time it will never flood. Was an oul red herring of an excuse that one.
Ian if you keep plugging away you will eventually be heard if indeed you havent been already. The assortment of people who write to me from all directions can be amazing at times...I cant name names but many threads are watched with real interest i can tell you.
So keep going young man..keep plugging away.
We have heard many stories like that Jan about the river...many never materialise thats why the volunteers organised themselves on an early version of this forum years ago...it became riverwatch in time if my memory is right...anyone remember 'mum of five' and 'mum of seven' and all the guys, Ian was the inspiration among others, who got in the river and did it themselves..caused consternation at the time with officialdom.
There are always pros and cons to these things..official EA guys will tell you why things cant be done in a certain way and sometimes they are difficult to argue with having the weight of authority on their side and the..well...expertise?
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Paul, have a look at pic 2 in the link above, I think that shows the bowling green/Maison Dieu car park area.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Thanks Ray..very interesting, didnt spot that one..but hard to tell, is that just waterlogging or flooding??
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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all the experts are saying that the good weather will arrive at the weekend.
pleasant now but more rain in the next few days then summer.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,610
I have got a couple of pictures of the Maison Dieu lawns under water and when my technical advisor gets home I will try and upload them.
For tomorrows event it might be worth noting the wind speed in the forcast.
http://www.ikent.co.uk/weather/Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,214
Flooding of the planned hospital site is not a red herring. Back in 2007 we had an almighty downpour of rain and there were serious floods throughout Dover. I went out and the Dour had burst its banks by the Bowling Green area. The water in that area was well above knee height. However, as I don't have a photo of it, I doubt if anyone will believe me. However, I do have a photo of the back of what is now K College and the entire grounds looked like a river.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I'm sorry but you can't completely blame the reeds for flooding even though some here would love to. The sheer amount of water that flowed through was a freak event, maybe once or twice a decade. The drains were overloaded and the storm drains could not cope. Reeds were not responsible for the huge floods at Hollis Motors, River and London Road, all upstream of Charlton Green, all of which were far more serious than Maison Dieu Road.
Back in 2007, in the downpour mentioned above, Maison Dieu Road was turned into a far worse river when the reeds were about a half of their present volume.
Well, we had a new colony of Water Voles along Barton Path that had found themselves a new home amongst the reeds for the first time this year. I expect they have now been swept away.
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