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COMING SOON - The Jubilee River - 10 years since opening plus a challenge to the EA
The Jubilee River: Flood alleviation or flood creation scheme?)
Social justice and the future of flood insurance (283kB.pdf)
Look out - here comes 'Staines under Thames'
Cuts delay £300m River Thames flood protection!
View 'For and against the LTFRMS'
Public Accounts Committee quizzes Dr Leinster
Cuts threaten millions with risk of flooding - October 2011
Thames Hydropower - The Queen goes green?
So what's going on here then? A slurry dip maybe?
End of flood insurance subsidy?
Myrke embankment and ditch - still a mess!
West Cumbrian floods due to poor dredging?
Lord Hanningfield loses appeal
NEWS -The Natural Environment White Paper
Flooding and flood defence - an independent e-mag.
This independent e-mag was initially created to expose and highlight an unbelievable fiasco of Environment Agency gross incompetence and failure on the £110m Jubilee River flood alleviation project - including sub-standard design and construction, £5m in repair costs, a £2.75m out-of-court settlement, unable to carry its design capacity and still falling apart. I can now reveal the facts and the truth about sub-standard flood defences nationwide, flood defence failures, neglect of watercourse maintenance (thus increasing the probability of flooding), property insurance difficulties, continuing development on flood plain and related matters of national significance (especially responsibility without accountability) and finally the Environment Agency culture of 'smug arrogance' and neglect of 'duty of care' and their shortage of both engineering and mathematical expertise. Unfortunately in my opinion - when it comes to drainage - the Environment Agency is guilty of benign neglect, can no longer be trusted to serve the nation and is not 'fit for purpose.' The Jubilee River is still the biggest and most expensive flood alleviation scheme ever built in the UK, and having failed to maintain both the Thames and the Jubilee River, the Environment Agency is now planning to spend another £300m of public money on the Lower Thames Flood Risk Management Strategy. The question here is whether the Environment Agency is spending our money on cost-effective solutions? Please read the Jubilee River Story and judge for yourself!
PUBLICATION OF SPECIAL REPORT:
Future flood and water management legislation: Government Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 2010–11
EA Guide to Managing Sediments in Watercourses
Lord Hanningfield - trial and sentence
The Natural Environment White Paper - Call for evidence by 21 June.
Horton & Wraysbury Ward - May 2011 election results
EA invitation to generate green energy from Thames weirs
River and reservoir flood maps - Horton & Wraysbury
7/4/2011 - Elliot Morley pleads guilty
25/3/2011 - The National Flood Prevention Party launched
David Chaytor loses jail sentence appeal
The Bosham Flood Prevention Strategy
Former MP Jim Devine sentencing set for 31 March
The Morpeth flood insurance model
Lead local flood authorities running out of time for PFRA submission
23/2/2011 - David Chaytor to challenge prison sentence
Firm fined £385,000 for Corporate Manslaughter
Departmental Expenditure Limit (2010-11) Defra = £2,801,004,000
EA flood schemes progressing in 2011/12
Flood wardens resign - Maurice Sines involved
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See the Cookham to Datchet map published by Lewin, Fryer and Partners in November 1991
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EA Head Office - come across as a bunch of cocksure know-it-alls! - Steart - and Ian Liddell-Grainger - 12 January 2011
This fiasco is somebody else's problem - all I need to do is continue steadily publishing the truth!
The Jubilee River Story - an unbelievable fiasco of gross incompetence and continuing cover-up -
- The Rise and Fall of the Jubilee River - Simply nothing to celebrate here!
(with chronological index including latest News)
Latest info - MPs expenses - Trial dates
David Chaytor - 3 December 2010 (pleaded guilty - sentenced to 18 months)
David Chaytor to challenge sentence (appeal lost)
Eric Illsley - January 11 2011 (pleaded guilty - resigned as MP - sentenced to 12 months)
Lord Taylor - January 25 2011 (pleaded not guilty - found guilty and awaiting sentence)
Jim Devine - February 2 2011 (pleaded not guilty - found guilty and sentenced to 16 months on 31 March)
Elliot Morley - April 11 2011 - the blame game
Lord Hanningfield (aka Paul White) was 13 December - new date to be fixed?
Thames Hydropower at Windsor - £1.7m
Defra Consultations 43/10 and 44/10
Elliot Morley and others - Old Bailey - Court 11 - 26/11/2010
17/11/10 - Flood insurance issues
14/10/10 - Quango cost cutting - changes to Environment Agency
7/7/10 - Dates set for six Parliamentary expenses fraud trials
Have you been post coded? Are you having trouble getting flood insurance or being charged vast amounts for premium and/or excess? Please click here for an alternative! We would honestly like to hear from anyone who has been quoted a vast premium and or excess.
Dr P Leinster's (EA Chief Exec) remuneration (2009/10) = £205,477
Jubilee River - MAP (EA) 163Kb.pdf
What's wrong with the Jubilee River?
26/5/10 - WANTED - Information about blocked and polluted watercourse please!
Jubilee River 'a monument to EA skills shortage'
The'Big Society' speech by PM David Cameron
Asset value of English flood defences = not less than £30bn
13/7/10 - Anne McIntosh MP asks about implementing EU Directive 2007/60/EC (Hansard)
9/7/10 - Cuts put £14.9m flood defence work in doubt (Oxford Times)
Environment Agency to be reviewed (Hansard)
Flood Risk Regulations 2009 - European Commission starts legal proceedings....
Explanatory memorandum to the FLOOD RISK REGULATIONS 2009 No. 3042(260kB.pdf)
25/1/10 - The Slough Weir saga exposed
FRR2009 - a warning to lead local flood authorities....
The first preliminary assessment maps and the first preliminary assessment reports for each river basin district must be published before 22nd December 2011 - then further information by December 2013 and 2015.
Caroline Spelman MP for Meriden, Secretary of State
for Environment
e-mail: spelmanc@parliament.uk
Flood and Water Management Act 2010
'In my opinion this new legislation (FRR 2009 and FWMB 2010)
could have done more to ensure that watercourses were properly maintained
- thus reducing the probability of flooding' (Ewan Larcombe).
Do you live near a raised reservoir or dam?
Defra Consultation: Ministerial direction for reservoir flood plans
Do you live in an area liable to flood?
Please see - Ewan's Simplified Guide to the new Flood Risk Regulations 2009 No 3042
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to protect our canals by not selling off property owned by British waterways. Submitted by Ian Rees – Deadline to sign up by: 19 November 2010 – http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/protectourcanals/
Lords call to revoke the Flood Risk Regulations 2009
The Flood Risk Regulations 2009 No. 3042 - in force 10/12/2009
Two interesting stories (complete with pictures) that could easily have been fatal:
River Hull Flood Action Group and contact details
“We know the Jubilee River works, there is no question about it. Nonetheless, the Atkins reviews do raise important concerns that the Environment Agency is addressing with urgency.” (Chris Birks - EA Thames region director - August 2004)
The EA empire builders continue to give excuses and deny responsibility for flooding, yet demand more money, power and influence without being accountable to the people who pay their wages! Some of the EA are the nicest, most helpful people that you could ever want to meet, but there are others that are smug, arrogant and complacent and I have no confidence that these office-bound button pushers (tied by flawed policies, hindered with conflicts of interest and supported by the longest list of excuses that you have ever seen ) are capable of doing the right job right, or supporting the national interest. I do hope that a new Government will soon take a long hard look at the EA (Ewan Larcombe - a personal view)
Elliot Morley to face criminal charges on 26 November
7/7/10 - Three former Labour MPs and a Tory peer have started an appeal against a ruling that they should stand trial over their expenses.
11/2/10 - Elliot Morley says he is being denied 'natural justice' (Telegraph)
5/2/10 - Elliot Morley MP to face criminal charges
5/2/10 - Elliot Morley and the 'blame game' (Hansard -March 2003) From the archive!
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