FLOOD! RIVER SOAR AT SILEBY LEICESTERSHIRE

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Sileby Marina in flood… high water levels batter many places across the Leicestershire rivers and canals as constant rainfall brings chaos to the roads and towns associated with the watercourses and waterways.
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@eclectictraveller 3 дня назад

Interesting thank you. I saw water pouring out of the Chesterfield Canal into the river Rother on a recent walk. Just shows how much rain we've had recently.

@isoguy. 4 часа назад

Do you remember when they used to dredge canals, rivers drainage ditches and build reservoirs some 50 years ago. All that has stopped and we wonder why places get now get flooded. The last reservoir to be built in the uk was 34 years ago, yet its population has doubled in the same period. A lot of areas now get flooded due to little or no maintenance e.g. the somerset levels, parts of norfolk, northamptonshire and cambridgeshire, but to name a few were built on flood plains with redundancy pump systems, all recent flooding has been down to poor maintenance of these areas. Similarly roads, road drainage ditches and road drainage systems are not maintained leading to severe road flooding. The maintenance systems are so bad in the above areas that insurance companies refuse property insurance. Incredible as both insurance companies and local authorities take our money year on year but neither do anything to prevent these disasters.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 3 часа назад

It’s absolutely true, travelling around and working to upgrade and improve Rail Infrastructure, a barely literate blue collar worker like myself can see that many infrastructure systems are old and often backed up with detritus often left for decades … Here’s what the ‘National infrastructure Commission ‘ had to say in 2022 … follow the link… nic.org.uk/news/600000-properties-face-future-flooding-without-action-to-reduce-urban-runoff-and-improve-drainage-systems/

@isoguy. 2 часа назад

onAmazing info, thanks for the link. A colleague of mine lives in Northamptonshire and thousands of new houses are being built with the majority of these houses plumbed into the existing sewers and run off into local rivers that already flooded before the new developments were initiated but no attempts were made to dredge the rivers, improve storage lakes or sewers. Just a case of doing the bare minimum and running off with the profits. It was interesting to hear that authorities suggest natural solutions like run off ponds, they did that in Huntington, then approved housebuilding on the floodplain. A few years later the authorities said they were shocked when hundreds of houses were flooded blaming global warming and residents having block paved driveways. They didn't mention these block paved drives were in the original building plans they approved. I think they think we are not informed of their antics and profiteering. As soon as an authority talks about natural methods you know they are doing the job on the cheap to maximise profits, Wildlife gardens = save money on parks and gardens. Natural solutions = on the cheap. Environmental issues = blame the consumer. Wildlife hedrows = excuse not to cut road verges, after all its easier and more profitable to procecute motorists who can't see road signs buried in the bushes (this reminds me of Arthur Dent who didn't read the sign warning of the earths destruction that was on public display at the end of the universe, in a cellar with no light) Call me crazy but the country has gone to pot.

@isoguy. 2 часа назад

Ah! In my hast to write on the subject I forgot to say thanks for an amazing vid, loved the canal boats and canal serenity, thank you.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 2 часа назад

@@isoguy. I drive by that housing project, it’s near where I have been working on SPC3 Kettering South Midland Mainline … there are some hefty culverts around there that manage the overflow of water very well. Back in 2020 a lot of detritus and heavy vegetation was cleared as part of the line of route for the railway … much drainage as also been included, but the area around Islam and Burton Latimer, along the River Ise really suffer as a consequence of merely moving the problem along.

@isoguy. Час назад

@@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 My attempt at sarcasm - Yes it's always better approach to shift the problem downstream into another county, not our problem anymore. More seriously, rather than paying billions to install water meters to give us higher water bills than Saudi Arabia, just a suggestion to our leaders of the wettest country in Europe. "for heavens sake use this wasted money on meters to build reservoirs, not one has been built in the UK in the past 34 years despite the water companies making hundreds of billions in profit.

@1258-Eckhart День назад

I'm a Leicestershire boy now 1,200 km away from the home county. I enjoyed this immensely - good coverage of the angry Soar, lovely commentary.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 День назад

Wow, what an incredibly enthusiastic comment and yes, the Soar is showing no sign of calming down … I was at Mountsorrel and called in on Sileby on my way home … the boat building facilities are typically traditional and the folk down there so, so friendly… in any other circumstance, this marina is perfect.

@1258-Eckhart День назад

@@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 Not really quite so perfect - I once fell into the Soar at Sileby Mill and became VERY, VERY ill. 🤐🤐🤮

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 День назад

@@1258-Eckhart 😲😞🥺… Leptospirosis more commonly known as weil's disease, is a very real danger associated with both canals, rivers and the railway infrastructure. I’m always saying; avoid hand yo mouth contact when negotiating all three, falling in is more dangerous than getting out, taking a mouthful of stagnant water could be lethal nowadays.

@1258-Eckhart 23 часа назад

@@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 I survived, but that is only due to my own immune system and not to the totally disinterested health service. BTW inbetweentimes, I'm sure that there is not just ONE pathogen in that water as you suggest, but several. And you can get multiculturally sick.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 23 часа назад

@@1258-Eckhart definetley. 🤝

@NarrowboatSuperB 15 часов назад

Nice video Nigel, I was up at Sawley this morning, all seems near to normal there at the moment.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 15 часов назад

Brilliant, my home town, I was at Kegworth earlier in the week and also at Thurmaston … The Soar remains angry, however the water levels are constant. Thank you for rating my video. Always look out for yours…

@mattydare День назад

Soar catchment is massive. 7:01 granite cobbles from Mountsorrel quarry (hence the pink colour). I would think that would have been the old towpath from Loughborough to Leicester to get coal into the mills or back from Leicester to the Trent with hosiery. Imagine how much horse and human traffic it has taken to polish that diamond hard granite (not by metal rimmed carts or modern vehicles.) It's a very important piece of history that people don't recognise.

@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 День назад

Oh. Absolutely. Nothing by todays standards compares to any of that, some of the ironmongery is still ‘good to go’, while little nuggets and pieces of history are everywhere, it’s a goldmine out there, particularly if one knows what they’re looking for. I am in awe of our great infrastructure, growing up as I have in Nottingham from the very early 60’s.