STATEMENT ON FLOODING – PREPARED FOR WRAYSBURY VILLAGE HALL – PUBLISHED ONLINE – FROM EWAN LARCOMBE     29`-1-2024     Draft version 5 – full – for publication complete with links –   29-01-2024 Good evening.  In some ways we are lucky.  The water is receding now but ten years ago we flooded twice and when we flood this ….  Read More

Below is an extract from a Press Release dated 23/10/2023 In October 2019 Surrey County Council’s Cabinet agreed £270 million of funding for long term flood risk management work across Surrey to protect homes and roads.  That included a contribution to the River Thames Scheme, which aimed to reduce flood risk to 15,000 properties and ….  Read More

Old Windsor, Wraysbury and Datchet waters contain poisonous chemicals Extract from Windsor Observer (Daisy Waites) 31st May 2023 Colne Brook, Wraysbury Researchers have warned of high levels of ‘chemical cocktails’ near a stretch of the River Thames, following an analysis of water samples at several locations in the county. They say the substances are polluting ….  Read More

Extract from Windsor Express 29/9/2022 The Jubilee River is just over seven miles long and was completed in 2002 to take overflow from the River Thames and alleviate flooding for thousands of nearby homes. The article does not say that the design and construction was sub-standard, that the channel is unable to carry its design ….  Read More

On 27th September 2022 RBWM resolved as follows: Since the Environment Agency took responsibility for managing the Thames and alleviating its flood waters, it has ceased the river dredging that had been in place for the previous 50 years. It is believed that this has caused a decrease in capacity due to unmanaged silting, impacting ….  Read More

Anglers ‘heartbroken’ as stretch of River Tone stripped of trees Environment Agency devastates banks of river near Taunton ‘to protect properties in Bathpool’ Banks of the River Tone after the Environment agency cleared a 250-metre stretch. Photograph: Dominic Garnett/PA Maya Wolfe-Robinson Sun 6 Feb 2022 11.00 GMT Anglers are “heartbroken” after a 250-metre stretch of ….  Read More

Environment Act 2021 – November 2021 An Act to make provision about targets, plans and policies for improving the natural environment; for statements and reports about environmental protection; for the Office for Environmental Protection; about waste and resource efficiency; about air quality; for the recall of products that fail to meet environmental standards; about water; ….  Read More

Extract from report 142.    We have listened with great concern to evidence that local communities feel disengaged and ignored in decisions relevant to flood risk. It is clear that, where risk management authorities do engage with local people, this engagement is often not perceived as meaningful or impactful. Communities must not be treated as groups who have ….  Read More

Three A1 posters created August 2021 – links below RTS Channel One Poster A1 Who needs beavers – FINAL http://flooding.london/rts/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Poster-Splash-A1-FINAL.pdf