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Many parts of this country rely on at least some intervention in order to keep them drained or protected from coastal flooding, and have done for hundreds of years. Are we simply going to write them off (along, presumably, with the housing they contribute and the tax revenue they generate) to save a few quid?

Insurance companies, rightly, aren't going to stomach coughing up for this on a regular basis when the authorities are shown to have been inept.

Yes, there have been cutbacks. I suspect somewhere in the EA, there are engineers who have been jumping up and down warning that it was "only a matter of time" but, of course, as is the norm, these days, the decisions get made by some public school / oxbridge educated arts graduate on a six figure salary.

For about a 1000 years as the Fens started to be drained during Roman times.

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That makes it 1600 years ago

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Many parts of this country rely on at least some intervention in order to keep them drained or protected from coastal flooding, and have done for hundreds of years. Are we simply going to write them off (along, presumably, with the housing they contribute and the tax revenue they generate) to save a few quid?

Insurance companies, rightly, aren't going to stomach coughing up for this on a regular basis when the authorities are shown to have been inept.

Yes, there have been cutbacks. I suspect somewhere in the EA, there are engineers who have been jumping up and down warning that it was "only a matter of time" but, of course, as is the norm, these days, the decisions get made by some public school / oxbridge educated arts graduate on a six figure salary.

For about a 1000 years as the Fens started to be drained during Roman times.

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That makes it 1600 years ago

I meant to say almost 2,000 year old where first Roman workings date from about 120AD. 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Many parts of this country rely on at least some intervention in order to keep them drained or protected from coastal flooding, and have done for hundreds of years. Are we simply going to write them off (along, presumably, with the housing they contribute and the tax revenue they generate) to save a few quid?

Insurance companies, rightly, aren't going to stomach coughing up for this on a regular basis when the authorities are shown to have been inept.

Yes, there have been cutbacks. I suspect somewhere in the EA, there are engineers who have been jumping up and down warning that it was "only a matter of time" but, of course, as is the norm, these days, the decisions get made by some public school / oxbridge educated arts graduate on a six figure salary.

For about a 1000 years as the Fens started to be drained during Roman times.

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That makes it 1600 years ago

I meant to say almost 2,000 year old where first Roman workings date from about 120AD. 

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Yep, the Romans were very advanced and anything to do with water irrigation was just one of their skills. When the last legion left our shores in 410 AD the Brits had lost a great advantage, and it took another 1000 years before they started to pick up and advance from where the Romans had left.

[Kevin Wood]

Yep, the Romans were very advanced and anything to do with water irrigation was just one of their skills. When the last legion left our shores in 410 AD the Brits had lost a great advantage, and it took another 1000 years before they started to pick up and advance from where the Romans had left.

Shame they left, really. Maybe the EA could have employed them as consultants.

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Yep, the Romans were very advanced and anything to do with water irrigation was just one of their skills. When the last legion left our shores in 410 AD the Brits had lost a great advantage, and it took another 1000 years before they started to pick up and advance from where the Romans had left.

Shame they left, really. Maybe the EA could have employed them as consultants.

 

I often think along those lines. In Summer we would not have the draughts we do in the South as the Romans would have built a series of aqueducts from North to South to distribute fresh water.  Their water management would have ensured a good system to control the flows of surplus water and avoid flooding.  It would also have created a system of fresh water supply to homes and general areas of occupation long before the 16th century when Henry VIII had such a system feeding his palaces. 

Oh yes, the Romans could have done so much more for us if they had not had the problems they did back in Rome.   

[Kevin Wood]

I often think along those lines. In Summer we would not have the draughts we do in the South as the Romans would have built a series of aqueducts from North to South to distribute fresh water.  Their water management would have ensured a good system to control the flows of surplus water and avoid flooding.  It would also have created a system of fresh water supply to homes and general areas of occupation long before the 16th century when Henry VIII had such a system feeding his palaces. 

Oh yes, the Romans could have done so much more for us if they had not had the problems they did back in Rome.   

.. alternatively, they might have been privatised by now, so they'd be sitting on their laurels, pandering to their shareholders while the "plebs" suffer.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I often think along those lines. In Summer we would not have the draughts we do in the South as the Romans would have built a series of aqueducts from North to South to distribute fresh water.  Their water management would have ensured a good system to control the flows of surplus water and avoid flooding.  It would also have created a system of fresh water supply to homes and general areas of occupation long before the 16th century when Henry VIII had such a system feeding his palaces. 

Oh yes, the Romans could have done so much more for us if they had not had the problems they did back in Rome.   

.. alternatively, they might have been privatised by now, so they'd be sitting on their laurels, pandering to their shareholders while the "plebs" suffer.

Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that!  Yes Thatcherum Caesar would have influenced that by now   ;D

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE

 

One of the classics!

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More interesting reading on the Somerset Levels, where EU regulations have put wildlife and habitat on an equal level with human life and dwellings. 

http://www.eureferendum.com/