Millhouse, Main hub & Meeting place of Castle Sowerby Parish

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River Edge Tree Planting ?

There have been recent proposals to plant young trees along the river edge.

WARNING. Careful common sense consideration should given before proceeding with this project. Tree planting on riverbanks does create stability, BUT if they are planted in the wrong position they could create the adverse effect.

It is absolutely crucial that these proposed trees are NOT planted on the top of the village's existing flood defence bank.

By planting trees on the actual top of the flood defence bank, a real threat to ultimately create serious potential damage to the bank will be inadvertently created.

(a) By planting a tree on the actual top of the bank it will NOT in any way provide crucial root growth stabilization on river edge where realistically its required.

(b) If the trees are planted on top of the bank the roots will be contained in the wrong location, in the soft texture of the man made flood bank structure, which realistically means that the trees will have an extremely unstable nature, vulnerable to be blown over by high winds.

And when any tree is blown over, roots are always upturned, which in sequence potentially will create an unwanted major breach of the flood bank, providing a direct path for the river to swiftly flow into our village of MILLHOUSE during periods of combined high winds, relentless rainfall/storms.

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For the sake of the inhabitant's future welfare and the crucial sustainability of property value/demand, this website has gone to great lengths to demonstrate in detail how the village of MILLHOUSE has been inadvertently reintroduced to regular flooding from the river Caldew, undoubtedly caused by rapid multiplying stacking behind the low capacity bridge, inflamed by inadvertent significant man made changes on the west bank in 2003.

This website uniquely demonstrates via an intricate photo Survey, the recently reintroduced flooding phenomenon to MILLHOUSE :

https://www.millhouse-hesketnewmarket.com/Desmond/Survey

The quite unique photo survey was carried out soon after the storm Desmond flooding event, with the full intentions of it being a vital aid to provide realistic information to the Environment Agency, to enable a necessary fast-trac remedial plan to be promptly put in to action.

To date, NO such (credible) plan has been instigated.

The reintroduced flooding routine is completely reversible, with a very logical common sense credible rectification to the inadvertent man made changes.

The reintroduced flooding routine commenced in 2005, after a break of more than 40 years. MILLHOUSE enjoyed a blissful Holiday from river orientated flooding, onwards from the completion of the long awaited construction of the village flood defense bank in the 1960's. It was during this period of 40 years when most of the recent flood victim residents of MILLHOUSE bought their homes at a then sustainable market value. The January 2005 flood event was a rude awakening, when unprecedented stacking was experienced behind the 110 year old single arch low capacity bridge, (Funnel/Dam).

3 more repetition flooding events have since occurred, undoubtably due to the incapability of the low capacity bridge, now deprived of its overflow bypass by the 2003 man made changes:

November 2009,

June 2012,

and storm Desmond December 2015.

Until the recommended logical credible remedy is carried out to rectify the low capacity bridge, (now deprived of it's original overflow path) the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE have an unsustainable flood resilience.

The realistic facts are that the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE will be flooded once again during the crescendo of the next extreme storm if no logical action is taken to rectify the serious problem of the low capacity bridge.

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We do welcome you to offer your views about the 4 reintroduced flooding events within the space of a decade which MILLHOUSE has endured since 2005.

(a) Is this phenomenon of 4 repetitive flooding events, and the 2003 blockage of the bridge overflow path just coincidence?

(b) Can global warming be to blame for the 4 flooding events?

(d) Is the capacity of the MILLHOUSE single arch bridge realistically

large enough for the river Caldew in full spate during an extreme storm?

(e) Has the repetitive flooding phenomenon increased or decreased the value and demand of properties in MILLHOUSE and the associated community post code?

(f) Are you willing to offer support towards a united front to push for a logical common sense remedy to get the repetitive flooding phenomenon rectified permanently?

(g) Are you willing to just sit back & take your chances that it may not happen again?

(h) Would you like the property values/demand in MILLHOUSE to become more sustainable?