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You drain the bits you want to use. The Dutch (and Singapore) know a thing or two about reclamation. They drained one of the most flood prone areas of the UK (The Fens ) a couple of hundred years ago and it's been ok ever since. Drove through last week – no problems, meanwhile west of the Midlands they struggle because nothing's been done.
....weeeell, you are right in that there no probs so far but give it another 50 years and the picture will most definitely be different.
The Boston flood barrier (a mini-Thames barrier) is projected to have a life of 100 years. As the Fens is a large area stretching to Lincoln in the North and almost to Cambridge in the South and there are several very low-lying areas around the Wash, more flood barriers will be needed.
See if your street will be underwater by 2050 with new climate forecast
The Fens are set to be particularly badly hit
www.cambridge-news.co.uk
Has the Environment Agency given up in its fight against flooding?
Where are the engineers? Whenever climate change comes up we hear from ecologists, activists and the odd scientist. But engineers? The very people we need to solve problems seem to be shut away in a box while school kids and dopey vegan campaigners are handed a megaphone with which to tell us...
beta.spectator.co.uk
Current estimates for the Fens barriers vary between 2 and 10 at £100M a pop. People who have day-to-day water related business in the area are already beginning to discuss which areas will be "indefensible", i.e abandoned.
...and on the subject of these barriers, I pointed out much earlier in this thread that the Thames barrier itself is already up and down like an un-politically correct sex-worker's undergarments and that estimates for when over-topping starts begin in a decade or so.
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