Yep, that’s pretty much it. When it comes to Midleton, as mentioned in the article for instance, there have been car parks and housing estates built on flood plains with still more on the way. People get shocked when these places flood and with nowhere else for the water to go, it causes other places to flood that didn’t flood before or do so more severely.
Rinse and repeat all over the country. It’s only going to get worse as the weather gets wetter and more extreme.
Edit: tidied up the comment.
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Pretty funny hearing Padraic advocating for introducing a non-native species to Ireland.
Even if we did all he suggests, we would still need flood barriers. They aren’t two separate things. The likes of Cork, Middleton, Enniscorthy etc are all built on natural flood plains and/or reclaimed land. These are areas which have flooded for hundreds of years.
Looking at a wider river basin based approach is needed.
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Yep, that’s pretty much it. When it comes to Midleton, as mentioned in the article for instance, there have been car parks and housing estates built on flood plains with still more on the way. People get shocked when these places flood and with nowhere else for the water to go, it causes other places to flood that didn’t flood before or do so more severely.
Rinse and repeat all over the country. It’s only going to get worse as the weather gets wetter and more extreme.
Edit: tidied up the comment.
Pretty funny hearing Padraic advocating for introducing a non-native species to Ireland.
Even if we did all he suggests, we would still need flood barriers. They aren’t two separate things. The likes of Cork, Middleton, Enniscorthy etc are all built on natural flood plains and/or reclaimed land. These are areas which have flooded for hundreds of years.
Looking at a wider river basin based approach is needed.