The Jubilee River and the LTFRMS - 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 in Datchet, 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), property 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. Unfortunately the Environment Agency can no longer be trusted to serve the nation and is not 'fit for purpose.'
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Marlow Flood Alleviation Scheme
Do you live near a raised reservoir or dam?
Defra Consultation: Ministerial direction for reservoir flood plans (closes 6 April 2010)
Do you live in an area liable to flood?
Please see - Ewan's Simplified Guide to the new Flood Risk Regulations 2009 No 3042
Floods and Water Management Bill - House of Lords Second Reading complete
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to protect our canals by not selling off property owned by British waterways. Submitted by Ian Rees – Deadline to sign up by: 19 November 2010 – http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/protectourcanals/
Lords call to revoke the Flood Risk Regulations 2009
The Flood Risk Regulations 2009 No. 3042 - in force 10/12/2009
Jubilee River map (EA) 163Kb.pdf Jubilee River - Key Facts What's wrong with the Jubilee River?
Audio and visual images 'It would be very embarrassing to all concerned..........'(1992 MWEFAS Public Inquiry extract)
For the 'old' news - please click here Jubilee River 'a monument to EA skills shortage'
Two interesting stories (complete with pictures) that could easily have been fatal:
25/1/10 - The Slough Weir saga exposed
River Hull Flood Action Group and contact details
“We know the Jubilee River works, there is no question about it. Nonetheless, the Atkins reviews do raise important concerns that the Environment Agency is addressing with urgency.” (Chris Birks - EA Thames region director - August 2004)
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! Some of the EA are the nicest, most helpful people that you could ever want to meet, but there are others that are smug, arrogant and complacent and I have no confidence that these office-bound button pushers (tied by flawed policies, hindered with conflicts of interest and supported by the longest list of excuses that you have ever seen ) are capable of doing the right job right, or supporting the national interest. I do hope that a new Government will soon take a long hard look at the EA (Ewan Larcombe - a personal view)
11/3/10 - Elliot Morley MP - criminal charges
10/3/10 - Dredging abandoned, saving Marlow sacrificing Bisham?
9/3/10 - Hi-tech flood barrier in Clementhorpe to be replaced
7/3/10 - British rivers could power 850,000 homes (Warning - Alarm bells sounding !!!!)
3/3/10 - Environment Agency dredging Burstwick Drain (HDM)
25/2/10 - Property development on flood plain (Hansard)
21/2/10 - Ewan's response to Defra reservoir consultation (1.85Mb
21/2/10 - West Cumbrian church closure threat over £1m flood repair bill
17/2/10 - Defra Consultation: Ministerial direction for reservoir flood plans (closes 6 April 2010)
14/2/10 - Ewan's Simplified Guide to the new Flood Risk Regulations 2009 No 3042
12/2/10 - York - revised flood maps
11/2/10 - Elliot Morley says he is being denied 'natural justice' (Telegraph)
8/2/10 - FRR2009 Groundwater problem - E-mail to Minister
5/2/10 - Elliot Morley MP to face criminal charges
5/2/10 - Elliot Morley and the 'blame game' (Hansard -March 2003) From the archive!
3/2/10 - Cumbria floods - Seventy may sue
2/2/10 - Floods and Water Management Bill - Finished the Report Stage & Third Reading - 2/2/2010
31/1/10 - Archive index rebuilt for ease of access
30/1/10 - Myrke embankment continues to degrade (1.6 Mb panoramic image)
27/1/10 - Just look what Robert Runcie (EA) had to say in August 2009 (When will the EA get their act together?)
Eurostar
Independent Review (February
12, 2010)
