In a message dated 19/01/2008 19:21:21 GMT Standard Time, Beeky and others postulated > of water per second = 1200 tonnes per minute = 72000 tonnes per hour > (quite a large ship) = 1,728,000 tonnes per day. Makes you think.
>I see. So if a large ship was to travel upstream each hour then the >riskof flooding could be averted altogether. There is so often a simple >answer to the world's problems. Ah ......... I see ...................... so then the building of the Mcr. Ship Canal in the late C19th not only ensured commercial prosperity for the Irwell valley, but also removed the risk of flooding in Manchester and Salford. A win-win situation. Then if we had learnt our lessons, last summer's disastrous floods in Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield might have been averted by a timely mobilisation of the whole of Waddington's fleet on the River Don / South Yorkshire Navigation. Hmmmmmm! Arthur Naylor nb Fertile Imagination. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
