BJ Flood Defences

Thanks are due to the Residents Association

We see that BJRA has been working on serious issues for the village, working on ensuring that new funds would be allocated for the flood embankment and keeping everyone informed everyone informed while the parish council is fiddling around ie..

"We are very pleased to be able to report that the Regional Flood Defence Committee has now allocated £490,000 for the Burton Joyce Flood Embankment and the Environment Agency aims to commence construction in Spring 2010.- "

The Community at large will no doubt be pleased and appreciative of the BJRA working on serious issues for the village, working on ensuring that new funds would be allocated for the flood embankment and keeping everyone informed everyone informed, while the BJ Parish Council appear to be fiddling around.

Fiddling around and revisiting issues already investigated , reported on, discussed and approved by the full BJ Parish Council some 12 monthst ago - i e the Grove remodelling.

The original "Grove report" and application proved successful in obtaining the £15,000 granted

Why is there a need to "tinker" ? - "If it aint broke - Dont fix it"
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Flood defences again

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On the 6/7th Sept and 3rd November I reported that the new BJ Flood defence pumping station had still to be completed. - after the commencement of the work in February 2008

-In the October 2008 issue of the Parish Magazine, Steve Wright’s contribution comments upon the report by the Environment Agency Flood Risk Management and their statement that at the time of going to print (which could be interpreted as the 16th Sept 2008) “the work was nearing completion of the pumping station” and that “When all work is completed screening of the site will be carried out by planting suitable shrubbery”
Yes! - I understand that

Well let me once again advise all in B J and the Agency itself, that work appears to have had little and no significant moves towards completion,

With all the rain and now the huge snowfalls, we have had of late it makes me wonder if all the expense in the new , non-completed B J Pumping Station was really necessary. After all we have all seen "down pour, upon down pour" and "wide spread flooding" thro-out many areas in the country, but not here in B J this last year .

Is it, that all the embarrassing and frenetic, renewed cleaning and clearing of the county's natural drainage ditches, dykes, becks etc (which have been in existence for years ), has really been effective and re-established the results for which they were initially created for ?

.. or have I missed something?
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Flood Defences

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B J Flood Defences
On the 6/7th Sept I reported that the BJ Flood defence pumping station had still to be completed. - after the commencement of the work in February of this year

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In the October issue of the Parish Magazine, Steve Wright’s contribution comments upon the report by the Environment Agency Flood Risk Management and their statement that at the time of going to print (which could be interpreted as the 16th Sept) “the work was nearing the completion of the pumping station” and that “When all work is completed screening of the site will be carried out by planting suitable shrubbery”

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Well let me advise all in B J and the Agency itself, that work appears to be NO nearer completion, with little or no apparent progress subsequent to the September statement - as my images show.

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With all the rain we have had this last year it makes me wonder if all the expense in the new , non-completed B J Pumping Station was really necessary. After all we have all seen "down pour upon down pour" and "wide spread flooding" thro-out the country, but not here in B J this year.

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Is it that the maintenance ( renewed) in clearing local Dykes, ditches and beck/dumbles etc was the only remedial action necessary? Instead of the instigating the reputed £350,000 contract

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