I was appalled to read in the local press that the breach in the Welland bank made in early January has still not been repaired and the land in the Washes have been flooded yet again in the recent heavy rain.
What on earth are the Environment Agency doing about it? They should have leapt into action and got the breach filled, at least temporarily, within days, not just “looking into it”.
It’s alright saying that the Washes are natural flood plains, but the works in rebuilding the River Welland and creating the Coronation Channel in the late 1940s/early 1950s created an area which didn’t flood and where land could be used for food production. It also prevented Spalding from being flooded every few years.
Thank goodness we’ve still got the Internal Drainage Boards locally to keep our feet dry, because if the drainage management was transferred to the Environment Agency we’d very soon be back to the wetlands of medieval times where wildlife would take over and the area would be flooded all winter, which it seems is all the Environment Agency seem to be interested in.
Come on Environment Agency, pull your finger out and carry out the job you are supposed to do!
Mike Chapman
Surfleet
