Save Our Bride Ottersさんのイラストまとめ

Historic culverting and the modification of the river Bride upstream is the underlying cause of flooding in Blackpool. The OPW intend to fix the problem by adding yet more culvert. There is no guarantee of success (which is just as well) because it didn’t work the last time #cork

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To sum this thread up - in my completely unqualified (though reasonably well informed)opinion, the Blackpool Flood Relief Scheme is the inevitable result of poor decisions - particularly in relation to drainage and planning in the late 1990’s to the early 2000’s. #cork

Here is a diagram showing the proposed flood lake during a flood event - looking from the North towards the Southern end of the park where it flows out of the park via the Brothers Delaney culvert - circled in red by myself. #cork

Planning documents show that there were a number of objections to this proposal at the time. People in Blackpool Village were still dealing with the fallout of the November 2002 flooding. Part of the culvert under Blackpool bridge had collapsed into the river...#cork

All this sudden concern for the environment is great. May it continue after the elections too. #LE2019

Just an observation based on observation. #planning #cork

Happy New Year all! Hopefully 2019 will bring fresh new ideas and not patched up crappy old ones. #cork #flooding #quickfix

Happy Christmas to the long suffering followers of this page. All of you. #cork

A brief respite from the all the flood stuff. Here are some penguins I made earlier cos' this page used to be about drawings. Why not. #notfloodingjustpenguins