Flood Defences

[NorthernRaider]

Theres no roads east, west or south open from here, Cant access any major road network, even our local main road and its twin bout half mile to the left both under 2 ft of water.

[Scythe13]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weathe...banks.html

[Ferret]

(26 November 2012, 21:52)BDG Wrote: What is the topography like there? Could you not dig a field drain or ditch yourselves or is it possible an old ditch that has silted up exists on your land?

We already have a three foot deep ditch running between us and the fields plus a storm drain after that. The ditch alone was not enough in the summer, the ditch and storm drain seem to be holding.....