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[vic mcclymont]

Lewis from the Times November 2019.
Up until 2000 rivers in the UK were dredged on a regular maintenance, when the EU waste Diective kicked rivers were noonger dredged.
Vic

[Tony Taylor]

Lewis from the Times November 2019.
Up until 2000 rivers in the UK were dredged on a regular maintenance, when the EU waste Diective kicked rivers were noonger dredged.
Vic

I watched a dredger working in the Tyne last year

[Lewis McColl]

Always a good excuse when you do not have the funds to spend because of government cut backs, blame the EU, well no excuses now we have left.

[Captain Kong]

My house is on the quayside at Fleetwood, 10 feet from the edge where the tide comes up,
for 20 Years I have measured the sea level at various heights of tide. it has not increased at all.
So where is all this water going???
at the entrance to the River Wyre at Fleetwood the Dredging stopped when Pandoro and Stena pulled out, since then sand bars are now all across to entrance to the old docks and the river, so that when heavy rains come, up the River, the water cannot get out fast enough and so it floods.
. last year St, Michaels , a town up stream was flooded for the first time in its history,
If water can get out it will not flood,.
If the river bed is lowered by 6 feet then the surface level of the river will be 6 feet lower. Simple.
This is happening in the River Seven, when I go to the Vindi at Sharpness every year, there are more and more Sandbars slowing the flow of the River, They were not there when I was at the Vindi.
Creating floods inland.
The authorities are Stupid, it is so simple.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Just a few days of winter:

Now comes the big thaw:

The mercury is expcted rise to a comparatively balmy
12C next week as the big thaw takes over the UK.

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

Here in Victoria we are considered to be the biggest bush fire place in the world.
Over the past 40 years here I have seen three exceptional bad ones along with a few smaller ones.

This year the results of a commission finding showed that one of the biggest problems which added to the fires was the lack of undergrowth clearing.
For generations the logging and control of forest area was conducted by the logging companies who had generations of experience.

Then came the 'Green's with a sympathetic Labour gov and the logging and clearing stopped.
As a result of the commission it will now restart, bit late for the hundreds dead and lost property.

Sea levels around Oz, despite the efforts of one man to convince us otherwise, have not risen.
I go regularly to Port Melbourne and the water marks of yesteryear are no different.

Remember back in the 60's, we were told we were headed for an ice age in the 70's, must have got lost somewhere along the way.

[Doc Vernon]

Think the Blue Mountains Area is just as Big John! The Fires we had here not ong ago were really bad and scary too!
Cheers

[Keith at Tregenna]

Days here are certainly getting longer.

Touch wood the year will be better than last year.

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

Think the Blue Mountains Area is just as Big John! The Fires we had here not ong ago were really bad and scary too!
Cheers

Yes Vernon, NSW is not without its problems when it comes to bush fires, bloody scary things, I got a bit too close to one and mate it is something you do not want.

[John Arton]

Before any port authority carries out dredging operations in its area it has to apply to the marine conservation society for a licence to do so, stating what it intends to do with the dredged material and notice of the intent to apply for such licence has to published in the local papers in order to allow anyone to object to such licence to being issued.
Rgds
J.A.