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Re: UK Flooding
the problem is building in flood plains
I live in Newport ( south wales ) we have a river with at maximum a 13 meter tidal range
the reason we don't flood often ( it has happened ) is because we have hundreds of years of flood planning with the Gwent levels and their many reens ( water ditches ) plus decades of walls and tunnels and pumping stations
just dredging or sticking a few dams in place will not protect you when you build on the part that was meant to flood
the idea that its any one government fault or that any one government could fix it is far fetched unless you throw unlimited cash at it and even then water will likely still win in the end if you try to do short term fixes
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