Will Emma Thompson be flying in? She will need to plant some extra trees at her own expense to offset the carbon footprint of doing so.
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Will Emma Thompson be flying in? She will need to plant some extra trees at her own expense to offset the carbon footprint of doing so.
Water, water, everywhere.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ft-high-water-Venice-streets-flood-again.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ft-high-water-Venice-streets-flood-again.html
That's a project to stop sea water coming in, the problem at the moment is getting rain water out.
A number of posters have commented on leaves blocking the drains causing flooding, and yet on the other hand the tree huggers want to plant more trees which shed leaves claiming they can hold the rain water.
Not daft them trees you know, by blocking the drains they are stopping their drinking water from running away.
The idea is to plant trees way upstream, ie in the countryside where there are no drains for falling leaves to block, that way less water gets downstream into urban areas. Forested land can hold huge volumes of water.
The Coulthard Report looked at the causes of the 2007 floods in Hull. It concluded that blocked gullies had minimal effect, the main cause was the failure of Yorkshire Water's pumps.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Is that because you think Balkan is right or is it because that opinion is a bit easier to digest?
If you're genuinely interested have a read of this. It's just one of a multitude of sources saying the same thing, that trees and forests have a key role in water management.
https://extension.psu.edu/the-role-of-trees-and-forests-in-healthy-watersheds
Well, there aren’t many trees or forests in Venice so maybe there is some truth in that.
Different argument. Being largely at or below sea level they have a different problem and deal with it differently.
Except the Dutch have spent years finding ways to solve the problems and control the water. If not half of the country would be under water.
Yes but their biggest problem, mainly, has been stopping water getting in from the sea, hence the seawalls, etc. I don't know what their policies towards rainwater management are.
The dykes (awaits "witty" response from Mr Hatem) are there to manage that.
I think they have acknowledged that they don't want to keep on building higher and higher dykes. Just read something about them learning to live with water, eg building more water-based leisure facilities which double as reservoirs when needed, underground carparks which do the same (I suppose they tell folk to get their cars out first..)
I'm no authority though. The only claim I'm making is that forestry has a major role to play in flood management.
*Godot will turn up before that happens!
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
The new Lagoon's have being a great help....getting rid/infilling of some of the lager ditches and dykes over the last 60 odd years by the council and houseing developers hasn't or building on what few green field sites that are left.
My old stomping ground as a nipper Setting Dyke as being flooded for the last month....the proposed site for the veterans village.
My old stomping ground as a nipper Setting Dyke as being flooded for the last month....the proposed site for the veterans village.
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