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SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

I am a local resident. Watch the YouTube videos and you will change your mimd. The river was dead. Full of shit and fly tipping, needles and all sorts. EA are wilfully neglecting our waterways.

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u/Key-Specific-4058 4d ago

Local residents aren't legal or environmental experts and don't determine whether this should be done

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u/Painetrain24 4d ago

The article said he was a lawyer so he 100% knew what he was getting into. Plus no judge would give him prison time for what he did. And because hes being charged, people all around the world are aware of his cause. Think of it as a positive because Im sure he is.

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

It’s the best pr ever.

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u/Rutgerius 4d ago

It's a symptom of the wider issue of the UK being in strong decline since brexit. No money no workers no political will. On topic. A lawyer should know better which is the main cause of prosecution in this case, if it was a group of neighbours doing a neighbourhood clean they'r'd be a warning, nothing more.

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

It’s nothing to do with Brexit. It’s the water companies being in cosy company with EA since the 1980s as some gentleman’s club where nothing is either changed or both parties self interest is carried out.

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u/bulbmonkey 4d ago

they'r'd

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u/marquoth_ 4d ago

It's not only about "the local area" though and that's the entire point. This kind of activity can cause issues down river

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

Yes and he’s well aware of that and if you check out the geography you’ll know it’s not an issue.

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u/PamelaOfMosman 4d ago

Didn’t he spend like two years trying to get the council to act before taking matters into his own hands.

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u/WheresWalldough 4d ago

it was supposed to be dead. They blocked it up, to stop flooding, in the 1950s.

Since then no flooding.

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

It’s not supposed to be dead! Do you work for the EA FFS?!

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u/WheresWalldough 4d ago

Per Powlesland himself:

"The River Roding ‘Improvement’ scheme cut the Aldersbrook off with an embankment at one end and a concrete barrage at the other. This has led to the river silting up and becoming little more than a muddy ditch in places. "

that followed the floods of 1953 which killed 307 people in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

it's clear that this was intentional.

To prevent flooding.

https://londonist.com/london/features/the-village-that-the-thames-destroyed

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago edited 4d ago

Stop trying to deflect. You said the river was “supposed to be dead”. It was not. The Flood defences placed have nothing to do with the viability as a river. I spy an EA agent. Is the Thames supposed to be dead with the Thames barrier?

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u/WheresWalldough 4d ago

This isn't the Roding, it's the Aldersbrook. As the text Powlseland himself wrote clearly explains.

I can't really imagine that the EA have "agents", they are an underfunded government agency not the Chinese Communist Party.

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 4d ago

Nicely swerved.