How to do flood defences

[Croxden]

This is the way to do it www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/netherlands-builds-new-style-of-flood-defence
The Dutch have had a bit of practice though.

 

[flecc]

That's all very well, but if we carried out expensive schemes like that, how would we finance buying Trident missile submarines, remote control attack drones and wars on other countries?

 

[Deleted member 4366]

They could build a hollow wall all along the river banks, wide enough for a cycle path inside, so that it would be like riding in a tunnel. No wind or rain!

 

[trex]

or drill deep into the ground, build a geothermal power station, turn flood water into steam and kill two problems with the same amount of money.

 

[flecc]

They could build a hollow wall all along the river banks, wide enough for a cycle path inside, so that it would be like riding in a tunnel. No wind or rain!

or drill deep into the ground, build a geothermal power station, turn flood water into steam and kill two problems with the same amount of money.

Not a chance, this is the UK, we don't do practical.

Any billions left over after buying all the armaments I mentioned above we spend on preserving grotty old buildings and other historical artefacts.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

I don't care about them buying weapons. At least Trident gives us a chance to take a few down with us when the holocaust comes, but £40 billion on a train that nobody will use could easily be diverted to something better. Why not a HS1 cycleway system and if there's anything left over, they can do a HS2 one. That will still create a big enough project to get their snouts in the trough.

 

[flecc]

£40 billion on a train that nobody will use could easily be diverted to something better.

The something better now should be a higher level inland rail line in the West Country, in place of that constantly troublesome coastal edge line that's been damaged yet again, this time washed away.

What can one say about a line where a train driver suddenly comes upon a yacht parked across the line as actually happened one day when it was washed up!

 

[jazper53]

I don't care about them buying weapons. At least Trident gives us a chance to take a few down with us when the holocaust comes, but £40 billion on a train that nobody will use could easily be diverted to something better. Why not a HS1 cycleway system and if there's anything left over, they can do a HS2 one. That will still create a big enough project to get their snouts in the trough.

 

[jazper53]

 

[Croxden]

Don't believe of word of it. (In answer to the above)

 

[peerjay56]

Don't believe of word of it. (In answer to the above)

A lot of people seem to be having trouble replying to posts.

 

[Clockwise]

This is the way to do it www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/netherlands-builds-new-style-of-flood-defence
The Dutch have had a bit of practice though.

Could this be adapted to make a missle silo with enough range to hit the middle east people with oil?

 

[Croxden]

Could be used as an escape route in case of an invasion.

 

[tillson]

I'm devasted to learn that Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and his River Cottage haven't been swept away in the recent flooding.

 

[flecc]

I'm devasted to learn that Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and his River Cottage haven't been swept away in the recent flooding.

Hush, don't give them ideas, they'll just make an irritating program about it, showing how to cook seaweed etc.

 

[tillson]

Hush, don't give them ideas, they'll just make an irritating program about it, showing how to cook seaweed etc.

Perish the thought.

 

[MikeyBikey]

I like that they get triple value for money by landscaping car park, dyke, and beach buildings all in one.
The Netherlanders seem to practice good infrastructure in all sorts of useful ways, like the http://hovenring.com/ and http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/news/the-dutch-develop-smarter-flood-defences