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The
Jubilee River
independent
e-mag
This
independent e-mag was initially created to expose
and highlight
Environment Agency incompetence and failure
on the £110m Jubilee River flood alleviation project, but now reveals the
facts and the truth about
sub-standard flood defences
nationwide, flood defence failures, neglect of watercourse maintenance
(thus increasing the probability of flooding), house insurance
difficulties, continuing development on flood plain and related matters
of national significance. especially responsibility without
accountability, and finally the Environment Agency culture of 'smug arrogance' and neglect of 'duty of care' and
their shortage of both engineering and mathematical expertise.






Windsor Hydropower Project
damned
- planning
decision deferred until August 6th
The Jubilee
River -'a
monument to EA skills shortage'
(Prof Knight in evidence to EFRA Committee)
The EA empire builders continue to give excuses
and deny responsibility for flooding, yet demand more money, power and
influence without being accountable to the people who pay their wages! I have no confidence that these office-bound button
pushers (tied by internal conflicts of interest) are capable of doing
the right job right.
Whatever
happened to the Thames Catchment Flood Management Plan?
Group Against Reservoir Development
'WE THE PUBLIC ARE NOT JUST CUSTOMERS OF THE
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, BUT THEIR OWNERS' (click here - M. Linklater - Times on Line)


22/7/08 - 7,800 more new homes confirmed for Gloucestershire
22/7/08 - Flood payments to Hull and Gloucestershire (Hansard)
>>Inequitable???<<
21/7/08 - Flood one year on. 'Never say never again' (This is
Oxfordshire)
21/7/08 - Why should we lose land to flooding? (Hull Daily Mail)
20/7/08 - Fight for lock keepers homes continues (Maidenhead Adv)
20/7/08 - Cypress Gardens victim's account of Summer 2007 flooding
(Gloucestershire)
19/7/08 - Actor takes lead in campaign (Staines Leader - lock keepers)
484kB
18/7/08 - Time to break up the Environment Agency? (NCE)
18/7/08 - Defra e-mail - 'dredging
not usually considered an appropriate flood defence measure'
18/7/08 - Letter about lock keepers EDM from office of Adam Afriyie MP
18/7/08 - Insurers force agreement on flood defence package (NCE)
17/7/08 -
'we must make the investment in flood protection for the future' (Gordon
Brown)
17/7/08 - Floods Minister makes fleeting visit to Longford
(Gloucestershire)
17/7/08 - Healey pledges £18.7m to flooded communities (NCE)
17/7/08 - Floods Minister: Shop around for insurance (Hull Daily
Mail)
16/7/08 - EA reviewing engineering skills and capacity strategy
(TheyWorkForYou)
16/7/08 - Swindon Village, Gloucestershire - Phil Woolas written answer
(TheyWorkForYou)
15/7/08 - East Yorkshire builders criticise poaching (Hull Daily Mail)
12/7/08 - Insurance hope for flood risk homes (York Press)
12/7/08 - Flood deal worth £200m for region (Hull Daily Mail)
12/7/08
- DPC 'Flood Relief Channel - objections - May
1992 (re-published - 660kB)
11/7/08 - Noise fears put brakes on Thames turbine plans (Express)
11/7/08 - HEP plans on hold (Observer)
11/7/08 - 'My flooding problem. Any advice please? (600kB)
11/7/08 - Politicians wade into Thames fight (lock keepers - MBM)
11/7/08 - Government and insurers aim to provide cover for flood-hit
homes (HDM)
11/7/08 - Government strike 25 year flood defence deal with ABI (NCE)
10/7/08 - Letter from Theresa May about lock keepers
10/7/08 - Letter from Defra about lock keepers
10/7/08 - Noah's Ark
2008
10/7/08
- SOS Campaign Raffle
10/7/08 - David Suchet on lock keepers (dated 28/6/08)
10/7/08
- Windsor Hydropower - application deferred until 6 August
9/7/08 - Government publish response to EFRA report on flooding
(link)
8/7/08 - 'Drum Major' boating accident - August 1998 (link to MAIB report)
8/7/08 - Clanfield (Oxon) volunteers clear
watercourse but EA puts rats before people (1.4mB)
8/7/08 - West Hull residents feared repeat flood (Hull Daily Mail)
8/7/08 - Thames waterway changes (R Runcie briefing note)
7/7/08 - Reports of flooding in Hull (Hull Daily Mail)
7/7/08 - Homes flooded after downpour (York Press)
7/7/08 - Flood victims: 'We're stuck here
for good' (Sheffield Star 23rd June)
5/4/08 -
570 homes on flood-prone land gets go-ahead (+ comments)(thisisgloucestershire.co.uk)
4/7/08 - Fury over Thames hydro-power scheme (Observer)
4/7/04 - RBWM Planning Report on hydro-power application
4/7/08 - Weathering the storm (Howard Robinson - NCE)
4/7/08 - Flood barrier gets residents vote (Oxford Times)
4/7/08 - Dutch firefighters swap floods lessons (Hull Daily Mail)
3/7/08 - Flood victims slapped with huge insurance hikes (Gloucester
Echo)
3/7/08 - Newtown Area Community and Residents Association (link)
3/7/08 - Bucklebury Flood Alleviation (link)
2/7/08 - Ofwat confirms Severn Trent £35.8m fine (BBC)
2/7/08
- SOS protest - Henley - Saturday
6 July - from 10.00am.
2/7/08 - Round one to lock campaign (Henley Standard)
1/7/08 - EA bosses under fire for flood warning failure (Sheffield Star)
1/7/08 - New housing on flood plains needs protection (Telegraph
letters)
1/7/08 - Severn Trent fined £2m for lying (gloucestershire.co.uk)
1/7/08 - How many vacancies in EA? (TheyWorkForYou.com)
1/7/08 -
Railway
bridge collapse due to flood damage - Wraysbury - May 1988 (15 images - 650 kB each)

30/6/08 - Skills shortage is timebomb (NCE)
28/6/08 - Call for more permanent pumping stations (Hull Daily Mail)
28/6/08 - Flooding unlikely to affect house prices (NAEA via BSBennett)
28/6/08 - Letter from Andrew Graham (EA) about lock keepers (550kB)
27/6/08 - Duplicate infrastructure required (NCE)
26/6/08 - Debate on flooding in Scottish Parliament (TheyWorkForYou)
26/6/08 - Debate on flooding in Scottish Parliament (TheyWorkForYou -
link)
26/6/08 - Pickering (N.Yorks) residents protest about lack of flood
defences (Telegraph)(640kB)
26/6/08 - Pitt urges tougher development control (Planning Portal)
26/6/08 - Teenager burgled flood victims (Abingdon Herald)
25/6/08 - SOS protest - Maidenhead - Saturday 28th
June - 1.30pm.
25/6/08 - More flood protection work needed (Oxford Times)
25/6/08 - More, better paid council engineers to fight floods (NCE)
25/6/08 - Penton Hook Lock Cottage - a watercolour by Sydney Foley
25/6/08 - Newts prevent watercourse maintenance (TheyWorkForYou)
25/6/08 - Pitt Review on Summer 2007 Flooding
(Link to Cabinet Office)
24/6/08 - Lock keepers' cottage sale halted (BBC)
24/6/08 - Wives unite in support of lock keepers (Henley Standard)
24/6/08 - Row over £1.9m house that floods (Telegraph)
23/6/08 - Full flood responsibility for EA (NCE)
23/6/08 - Letter to Dr Leinster about EFRA recommendations
with EA reply
22/6/08 - Sir John Harman response to interim Pitt Review dated 3/4/08
(link)
22/6/08 - Flooding priorities - Letter from Cllr. Tony de Vere (Herald)
21/6/08 - Lock keepers homes - Cabinet Minister hears plight (Maidenhead
Advertiser)
21/6/08 - Lock keepers wives unite (Henley Standard)
21/6/08 - Letter about lock keepers (Teresa May MP)
21/6/08 - Link to Coastal Concern Action Group
21/6/08 - Radio programme on Flooding - Listen
again - BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today This Week
19/6/08 - Floods and Pitt review (Hansard)
19/6/08 - Defra training and EA manpower (Hansard)
19/6/08 - Letters about lock keepers dated 30 May and 4 June
19/6/08 -Give us a flood strategy now, urge insurers (NCE)
19/6/08 - Flood victim's damages claim against Yorkshire Water (Hull
Daily Mail)
18/6/08 - West Oxfordshire District Council Flood Reports - July 2007
flooding including
Ascott Under Wychwood, Bampton, Brize Norton,
Carterton, Clanfield, Filkins and Broughton Poggs, Milton Under
Wychwood, Standlake, Stanton Harcourt and Witney)
18/6/08 -
Link to EA Thames Catchment Flood Management Plan
18/6/08 - Letter to Adam Afriyie MP about lock keepers from Peter of
Wraysbury
18/6/08 - Boaters dice with death on Thames (Surrey Herald 11/6/08)
18/6/08 - Proposed Floods and water Bill (Link to Hansard)
18/6/08 - Ministerial statement - proposed Floods and water Bill (extract from Theyworkforyou.com)
18/6/08 - The Government intends to publish draft
'floods and water bill' for
consultation
17/6/08 - Surface water deal to stop floods (Hull Daily Mail)
16/6/08 - Yet another letter from P Quarmby about lockkeepers houses
complete with F Pilditch response
16/6/08 - Yellow River flood warning as rain continues (news from China)
15/6/08 - Survey shows flood toll a year on (BBC News - South Yorkshire)
15/6/08 -
More interesting letters about lock keepers (535kb)
13/6/08 - Lock keeper support meeting - Henley -
Saturday 14th June (Martin Salter
MP)
13/6/08 -
Letters from River Thames Society about lock keepers (570kb)
13/6/08 - Flood work is in the pipeline (Oxford Times)
13/6/08 - Final words from Barbara Young (NCE)
13/6/08 - Hobbs heroes (Henley Standard)
13/6/08 - Interesting letters about lock keepers (550kb)
12/6/08 - Meeting about lock keepers in Henley on Saturday
12/6/08 - Lock keepers play vital role - Shiplake PC (Henley Standard)
12/6/08
- Question about lock keepers to Leader of House of Commons (Paul
Goodman 5/6/08)
12/6/08 - River Ock flooding and blocked watercourses (e-mail from
Richard)
12/6/08 - Flood victims want more Council help (Abingdon Herald)
11/6/08 - Laser mapping shows flood risk areas (Hull Daily Mail)
10/6/08 - EA reports 12 months on from the 2007 summer floods (EA news
release)
10/6/08 - Drama of woman's river rescue (Maidenhead Adv)
10/6/08 - Flood cash bids invited (Oxford Times)
9/6/08 -
Boat problem - e-mail from a Thames side resident
9/6/08 - Residents anger over repeat floods (Abingdon Herald)
7/6/08 - Record rainfall swamps Hong Kong
6/6/08 - Severn Trent reveals cost
of Gloucestershire floods (Gloucester Times)
6/6/08 - Broken drain leads to new
flood (Oxford Times)
5/6/08 - David Cameron fights sale
of lock keepers' houses in the Thames Valley
5/6/08 - Save the lockhouses - Ian
Taylor MP
5/6/08 - Letter from Defra to
Freddie Pilditch about lock keepers
5/6/08 - Letter from Ewan Larcombe
to Dr Leinster about lock houses
5/6/08 - Letter from Ewan Larcombe
to Dr Leinster about EFRA recommendations
5/6/08 - Flood work a boon for York
claim (Hull Daily Mail)
5/6/08 - New hope for flood victims
(Gloucester Echo)
5/6/08 - Water firm's pledge on new
pumps (Hull Daily Mail)
4/6/08 - Teenager dies in
stormwaters (Oxford Times)
4/6/08 - Damaged wall causes fears
for flood victims (Gloucester Echo)
3/6/08 - Flood evacuees celebrate
return (Abingdon Herald)
2/6/08 -
Environment Agency
lock keeper case crumbles in face of opposition from local MPs (Press
Release)
1/6/08 - Yet another EA HQ in
Bristol<<
another £10m of our money !!!!!>>


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