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- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
17 July 2012 11:07183254I don't think anybody is blaming the reeds for the flooding as that was purely down to the long period of heavy rain. It is just that the water weed has grown so much you can hardly see the water in places and some of the reeds could do with thinning, if that is what you do with the reeds.
I hope that the 'Ratty' colony has survived the sudden influx of water, water voles are so cute.
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 17 July 2012 11:32183255Here you go Phil...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6221006.stm
http://news.sky.com/story/960424/flood-warnings-continue-but-respite-in-sightIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 20 July 2012 17:25183739Re previous posts, the first photo on this link confirms that the flooded area depicted last week was indeed Maison Dieu Gardens.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Roads-turned-rivers-2-hours/story-16560543-detail/story.html
The two photos below of the Riverside Centre and Bowling Green Alley after the 3.5 hour storm on 19th June 2007 are shown on page 39 of the Flood Risk Appraisal of the River Dour May 2010, link appended.
http://www.dover.gov.uk/pdf/20100519%20Flood%20Risk%20Appraisal%20of%20the%20River%20Dour%20without%20Appendix%20Reduced.pdf - 21 July 2012 11:30183901Thanks Ed. Glad you found these pictures, proof that that proposed hospital area area does indeed flood. In fact when I wandered through the area the water was even higher than the those pictures above which were obviously taken the following morning. I remember the benches along the path were completely submerged, one could not even see the sitting plank.
This was South Kent College at 21:20.
- 21 July 2012 11:34183904Yes, good to see these pictures, thanks Ed and Phil and as you say Phil, proof indeed
- 22 July 2012 06:08184028Wasn't it announced fairly recently - and discussed on here, that DDC and other responsible bodies (KCC, Southern Water, the E.A. had resolved to put into place, measures to stop this flooding ?
I understand/heard that Blakes was flooded out recently.
Roger - 7 December 2012 09:17204899Jeez it came down in bucketfulls last night..with blasting winds to match. I thought my flat was about to become airborne as it shook and rattled.
Here is the colourful reflective scene near the exit to the docks in the midst of it all...
There may well be flooded areas today. My immediate barometer is always the 'Millers' carpark which for a while looked like Lake Geneva.with water burbling up from the drains rather than going down.email: dover7@msn.com - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
7 December 2012 15:05204948and that happens regurly at york street round about,drain cover on the aproch to the roundabout is in the road. - Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,028
24 February 2020 07:23361455An unfortunate choice of words:
Flooding: 'We've got to come up with a solution'. With the recent flooding across the country, one resident who has suffered in the past has spoken of the need to find solutions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-51598471/flooding-we-ve-got-to-come-up-with-a-solution.
You'd think she'd just look out of her window.(Not my real name.) - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
24 February 2020 09:38361456Towns and villages are now suffering partly because of all the buildings and roads that have been built on flood plains.
I wonder how much of the flooding would have been avoided if the more of the rural drains and ditches were regularly cleared or deepened. A farmer was complaining that a big overflow channel on his land had not been cleared of the silt that had built up in the bottom, he even said he would not mind if the silt was just left on his land.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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