Essex Keeper Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 (edited) Please get the ea to pull there finger out and start cleaning the rivers again of trees etc I'm sure this doesn't help when I was boy the ea use to clean the river though the farm Haven't seen a ea man or women for years Edited December 27, 2015 by Essex Keeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 i think im right in saying ...when the Water Board was bloody privatised.........so as to make money for their shareholders they laid off over a few years 38.000 water balliffs.....when i was young we knew even then that they had other things to do apart from chase us up an down the riverbanks for rod liecences....they managed the autumn flood meadows ...the weirs and lock gates....took weed and stuff out of the rivers and also kept an eye on the silt build up in their patch of the river............and getting the draglines in every 3 or 4 years... all this has now been "Risked" away by various consultants....and unfetted building on flood plains,,,,,,,,the misuse of Hec-ras hydraulic modelling programmes and pathetic "balancing" agreements with developers............... the trouble is ...now anybody under the age of 50 hasnt a clue about what you are talking about...and treats you like someone out of an old peoples home......MP's ministers...all the Whitehall crew really know squat about it as they wernt there....... sorry rant over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Are you saying that these problems should be water under the bridge by now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabbitbosher Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Are you saying that these problems should be water under the bridge by now? You owe me a keyboard now bruno22rf !!!!!!!!!!!! I just spat my Tea all over it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 And while we're at it, when are we going, cap in hand, to Europe for a gigantic hand out? Oh, we're not, now there's a surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 There is currently housing being built where i am and the village i live in is in-between two moors. Which currently have large splashes in 90% of the fields.. The government dont care about it though.. We have to have more housing so they just say build.. 21k new homes by 2026. Oh and built on green field sites looking at current plots and planning apps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlerob Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 If it was me up that neck of the woods I would hire myself a excavator and dig the river out myself. But I bet you soon get sum official saying you couldn't and wanna fine you. It seems our country is run by how much money we can save and how can we cut people working and potrey that everything will be the same if not better. Main Form of revenue taxation and pull more money out your wallets legislation you need to pay this so you can do that and then you have to pay another fee and do a refresher very so often Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/17/farmers-uk-flood-maize-soil-protection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/17/farmers-uk-flood-maize-soil-protection I don't doubt that some of the reference data in his piece is correct, but anything written by Monbiot will be fiercely anti tory, anti wealth, anti countryside, anti farmer, anti shooter, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Am i right in thinking that he is wealthy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Am i right in thinking that he is wealthy? Champagne socialist, it wouldn't surprise me. I really just don't like the guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Champagne socialist, it wouldn't surprise me. I really just don't like the guy. You and me both, it's in the Guardian.....enough said. Like Owen Jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laird Lugton Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 The Graudian surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Nut job admittedly. Anybody who spends any time on farms can see he has a point about winter wheat and water run off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/17/farmers-uk-flood-maize-soil-protection George Monboit: his father, Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, is a businessman who headed the Conservative Party's trade and industry forum,[2] while his mother, Rosalie—the elder daughter of Conservative MP Roger Gresham Cooke[5]—was a Conservative councillor who led South Oxford district council for a decade............Typical 'Born-again Socialist'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Nut job admittedly. Anybody who spends any time on farms can see he has a point about winter wheat and water run off. That was one bit I disagreed with. Winter crops are sown in the autumn. Spring crops were traditionally sown after the land had been left fallow during Winter, encouraging/enabling soil erosion during rainfall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STOTTO Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 i think im right in saying ...when the Water Board was bloody privatised.........so as to make money for their shareholders they laid off over a few years 38.000 water balliffs.....when i was young we knew even then that they had other things to do apart from chase us up an down the riverbanks for rod liecences....they managed the autumn flood meadows ...the weirs and lock gates....took weed and stuff out of the rivers and also kept an eye on the silt build up in their patch of the river............and getting the draglines in every 3 or 4 years... all this has now been "Risked" away by various consultants....and unfetted building on flood plains,,,,,,,,the misuse of Hec-ras hydraulic modelling programmes and pathetic "balancing" agreements with developers............... the trouble is ...now anybody under the age of 50 hasnt a clue about what you are talking about...and treats you like someone out of an old peoples home......MP's ministers...all the Whitehall crew really know squat about it as they wernt there....... sorry rant over... Drowned Out For any flood strategy that’s worth reviewing You must employ guys who know just what they’re doing But to the government's queer way of viewing This is a policy not worth pursuing STOTTO Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krugerandsmith Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 imx. Quite right .... consult the Dutch .... they will tell you how its done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 In Holland they tend to build houses in risk areas where the main living accomodation is on the first floor along with things like fuse boxes freezers etc and the ground floor is a garage and maybe a rumpus room with stuff that wont really spoil or can just be dumped without too much grief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STOTTO Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 imx. Quite right .... consult the Dutch .... they will tell you how its done. Ah, the Dutch with the boy’s finger in the dyke and the British and the government with its head up its ####! Very different approaches to similar problems! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 When they stopped doing this, the trouble started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 is that a 36 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 is that a 36 ? Just an old pic i downloaded ditchman, looks like a 10RB to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konnie Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 A while back was talking to a contractor who has EA contracts, and mentioned there are only 2 drag liners I the country at the moment, so no large work can or will be undertaken. Used to love watching them do the large drains and dykes around here, the herons waiting for eels or fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Please correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't EU legislation govern the permitted works to main drainage channels and rivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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