You are so right George, when I was a kid you would see the road sweeper and drain gully cleaner every month , you never see one now. My dad was on the farm all his life and after harvest they would be dredging ditches. Most roads have blocked drains so rain has nowhere else to go. About time the councils and Defra got their fingers out and got it sorted.
The guy in Hereford i think it was got a year i believe. Plus a very hefty fine. Fish will move and they filler stirred up water. Same as if there's a storm. No one should go to jail or be fined for sorting out a flooding problem or doing any sort of good turn!
Come the summer we'll have a water shortage hose pipe ban this country needs to find away to store some of it. Great video George as normal. Looking forward to seeing more. Regards to you all
Exactly! Thames water is building a new 150 million m3 reservoir that'll protect everybody on the Thames from just south of Oxford down to London. The rest of us will just have to lump it because our property values aren't high enough.
I think environment agency should look into underground reservoirs to collect water without flooding and use as power banks. We need to use the flooding water to help environment and build a national grid to supply drought areas and balance the supply.
Sounds like George your farm needs to build water proof Flood protection back stepped retaining walls there in front of the cow sheds so next time a big flood happens the flood waters will not go in to the sheds as the walls will hold it back and force it away down stream. the cost be worth it to protect the farms stuff!
Bloody environmental agencies need to have a long hard look at allowing rivers etc to be maintained an also planning consent for flood plains needs looking at 🤔 interesting video George 👍
👍👍god damn environmental agencies need to be done away with...all they're out to do is write new bullshit laws,control people and make money...they could care less about the environment...least here in the U.S.
That is a good point about building on flood plains reducing their capacity to hold water. The other issue is that concrete jungles don't hold any water back, that coupled with all the extra drainage to get water away from places just forces it downstream faster until it can find a release. That is also the reason that small scale dredging of natural waterways isn't the answer, and large scale dredging and canalisation brings other issues, plus how much more are we really willing to screw our natural environment? Definitely aren't any quick fixes, and some of them probably require some people to give up some maginal ground and a serious change in the way contruction projects etc. handle water management.
Hi George, I live in Welney and there’s a 1 meter deep water on the road that goes through the village to Littleport but like you said if they opened the gates at Denver. The water would flow out to sea and the level of water where you are would drop overnight. Would be nice to see you hedge cutting as you make a fabulous job. Fenland Rob
Hello George that is some flood we ain’t nothing like that 8 mile up the road from us Northampton has had water like that keep up the good work look forward to the next video 👍👍
There is a second option to dredging and that is strip topsoil back with a dozer, push the subsoil up to the river bank and push the topsoil back over it rising the height of the river bank
Here in the Netherlands you have to compensate waterstorage for building or even concreting in your yard or other building projects (also for government projects). For instance we built a 1600m2 building and then there was a formula to say how many m3 of water storage you have to create. We could widen a ditch with half a meter for a length of 250 meters. At the time i found it "meh" but seeing this or Ollyblogs earlier i think it's not a bad rule. It makes for clear policies.
You are right about the flood plains back in 1980/90ts we took thousands of tons Potton asraised sand into the site wich became Bedford Tesco super store Riverfield DRIVE ,if i remember right Teaco stepped when the original owners sold out to Tesco probably for financial problems that piece of land probably held back thousands of gallons of water But you cant tax anyone for floods
Hi George , Sorry to see you are flooded again you will soon have to get yourself a boat ⛴️ so you can go out and see how your crops are doing not funny 😢ya , Well George you take care of yourself and stay safe.
We’re similar to you with a big river running past and a smaller tributary a bit further up. We’ve been flooded almost half the winter (since September/October) rivers been rising nearly 4m each time and slow to go down. The one that here now has been 3 days and just peeked, probably take 5 days to go 😩🤦♂
oh mate sorry to see your problem but this what I keep saying on my channel Stop building on farm land but there's loads of money building on a nice clear land than brown field sites
Geez George, the bloody AD video I just had was a pretty girl tells me how to keep my member hard , what the hell has happened to RU-vid ADs , oh by the way great video 😊
Hello George. You'll soon be thinking about getting an ark on standby for the livestock to move into for safety from the flood waters. The E.A. or environment a**holes don't help the situation with their rules and regulations that make things worse rather than better. Scotland has its own as useless agency SEPA aka Scottish Environmental Pri*ks Agency who dictate rules and regulations on farmers in Scotland to make life harder and more difficult instead easier and better. They fined a poor farmer a few years ago for pollution after a water company sewage pipe going through his land burst and spilled out sewage. Not his pipe or his responsibility but he was the ONLY one fined for the pollution incident NOT the water company who were responsible SEPA are quick enough to blame and fine everyone for problems but they don't accept the blame or responsibility when there is a problem.
