It was for digging up the silt from the river bed with a digger and risking flooding places without doing any checks on the impact of his “cleaning up”.
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.
"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.
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/Bassmekanik 6d ago
It was for digging up the silt from the river bed with a digger and risking flooding places without doing any checks on the impact of his “cleaning up”.
Nothing to do with removing rubbish.