Submitted on Sunday 13th December 2015
Rejected on Monday 14th December 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reinstate river dredging to help reduce the effects of excessive rain fall.
Over the last 10 years we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of flooding, both coastal and inland from excessive precipitation. This is in direct corrolation with Global warning, but also a consequence of reducing the volume of the UK's riverways by ceasing all but targetted dredging.
Simple hydrological theory states that if a watercourse's volume is reduced by inserting a mass then its permissable volume of said channel is reduced by the same. Ceasing to dredge the waterways as they aren't required for commercial navigation has resulted in silting up of our rivers. Eg; The Ouse in York, once a 6m deep river, now is 3m deep at its deepest - the rest is Silt.
Dredging is time consuming & expensive but very necessary to reduce the impact of increasingly excessive rainfall.
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