when the Stort "burst its banks" three years ago Essex County Council said it was not their river that was causing the flooding problem they said it was the farmers fault, it was all the water on their fields that was flowing into the river
>Andy Dyke wrote: > > >The river is well up in Evesham and has burst it's bank by Hampton Ferry. > >Hmmmm. Surely the river has overtopped its banks rather than burst them. >Burst banks give me the picture of a New Orleans type situation. But >Andy is not >alone with such a description. Even the mighty BBC a day or so ago reported >burst banks in the Anglia region. > >Regards, > >Dave Hearmon > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
