Flooding: Drainage & Watercourses - Nottinghamshire County Council

Flooding: Drainage & Watercourses
• Inform their obligations and for a
regulatory authority to enforce
action when appropriate
Calverton Parish Council
Lack of dyke and culvert
maintenance.
• Identifying responsible bodies.
• Swifter action may have been
forthcoming if the right people had
been contacted earlier.
Cromwell Parish Meeting
Garages, outbuildings and gardens submerged.
Dykes and ditches not properly
maintained
Failure of sewer. (Raw sewage)
Caunton Parish Council
Only one house badly damaged.
Neglect of ditches in the county, lack
of maintenance
Partnership working Newark and Sherwood DC
responded promptly and
“did an excellent job”
Highways Dept v quick
Dunham on Trent with Ragnall, Darlton and Fledborough Parish Council
Many homes in Ragnall had severe flooding as did St Oswalds Park, Dunham on Trent. The amount of rainfall at that time was extreme and so
sudden; it would be difficult to plan how to respond should this happen again.
Drains unable to cope with excess
rain water.
Authorities did not respond in a
reasonable time.
Severn Trent were slow to
respond.
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