Post by @BashStKid@mastodon.online

2026-10-06 10:54 UTC

@John_Loader@ohai.social @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk There are plenty of places with the same problem, if not more extreme, like eastern England/Fenland, which is already stuck between baked-in sea level ingress, flooding, and soil degradation. We’ll end up having to build reservoirs up, can’t build them down with all the alluvial/glacial gravels in place. Or simply relinquish towns and farmland back to the floods and the sea.

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@pthane@toot.wales 2026-10-06 13:24

@BashStKid@mastodon.online @John_Loader@ohai.social @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk There is a plan to build a reservoir in the fens. It was a vague aspiration when we lived in Huntingdon, 1984-97. It had become a firm plan when we moved back to the area in 2016. Maybe if we move away for another 20 years something might have happened by then.

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@John_Loader@ohai.social 2026-10-07 09:09

@BashStKid@mastodon.online @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk I lived in Fordham in Cambridgeshire and the flood map showed that if defences failed the water would reach my door. Not sure if the Prickwillow drainage engine museum still going.

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