Must say this photo in The Citizen on Wednesday was a little shocking - water surrounding Tewkesbury town centre - and near Tirley a resident described going out in a see-through boat and went boating over apple trees! News today notes 14 now dead in the UK and some £14 billion of damage across the country!
Locally more trees down - and the road in front of More Hall Convent has been closed. The brook has been close to flooding and I've had another incident reported from last week of a manhole overflowing raw sewage into land near Puckshole.
In my bit on floods a couple of days ago I wrote about solutions - have been putting another article together - this time for The Edge - produced by Gloucestershire's Vision 21 - pity none of these groups have money to pay for all the words!! Anyhow I approached Water21 - another local group who have spun out of Vision 21 - they are the ones we are hoping will look at the Ruscombe brook. They have added some bits about poss solutions - this diagram represents a Willow bed. They write:
"A reedbed-biomass-lake system for sewage treatment, costing less than 10% of conventional sewerage costs, and producing a major (biomass) energy byproduct. Such systems have now been constructed in other countries very successfully treating over 8 million gallons of waste per day at single sites. In the UK they are not presently permitted by the water industry regulators! They are an ideal approach for community based groups like RBAG."
We really do need to start looking at these solutions - the Government seem unable to wake up to the problem or the possibilities and opportunities - Minister Ian Pearson has failed to even respond to my second letter re Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems - there doesn't seem to be any national campaigning organisation looking at issues like this properly - maybe we will see Water 21 grow into something like that - certainly it's time has come.
Must say this photo in The Citizen on Wednesday was a little shocking - water surrounding Tewkesbury town centre - and near Tirley a resident described going out in a see-through boat and went boating over apple trees! News today notes 14 now dead in the UK and some £14 billion of damage across the country!
Locally more trees down - and the road in front of More Hall Convent has been closed. The brook has been close to flooding and I've had another incident reported from last week of a manhole overflowing raw sewage into land near Puckshole.
In my bit on floods a couple of days ago I wrote about solutions - have been putting another article together - this time for The Edge - produced by Gloucestershire's Vision 21 - pity none of these groups have money to pay for all the words!! Anyhow I approached Water21 - another local group who have spun out of Vision 21 - they are the ones we are hoping will look at the Ruscombe brook. They have added some bits about poss solutions - this diagram represents a Willow bed. They write:
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