2026-10-05 17:59 UTC
@Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @John_Loader@ohai.social @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk First, I should say I don’t know in detail, but I’d suspect that traditional fallback doesn’t work anymore:
- building on floodplain
- too much catastrophic flooding with high winter rain rates
- too much soil erosion and leaching, damaging the soils, and dumping too much nitrate/shit into the river.
Really need to capture the winter rains, save them for summers, minimise land inundation / water table changes.
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@John_Loader@ohai.social 2026-10-06 09:11
@BashStKid@mastodon.online @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk Dam more valleys? Dig or raise reservoirs .Not a great choice. slowing it down is a good way so flows continue through the year with a massive amount of tree planting and making rivers more bendy. In Maidenhead they built of flood plain despite the river authority objections. Houses flooded. So they built a diversionary river