Presentations by Brian Durham and Jonathan Madden to North Hinksey Parish Council Annual Meeting
Brian Durham
It was fun in 2003, hard work in 2007. West Oxford is getting continuous permanent walls, this area is getting temporary tin and plastic.
So what’s to be done?
We need the blue streams. Tim’s `disproportionate costs‘ relate to the yellow area. Previously it was for `storage’, but storage is now `zero'. Maybe then for flow? We have received this document (wave) with complicated wording in six places (wave). Pending explanation, the yellow area is expensive, experimental wetland.
Water backs up against the Old Abingdon Road, which has been resolved. The railway seems however to be a long-term problem to the Environment Agency, because Network Rail has an Act of Parliament. The Act of 1843 says:
`the Company shall provide …. all necessary arches ….. sufficient at all times to convey the water as clearly from the lands affected by the Railway as before the making of the Railway…. and such works …. from time to time;
Oh yes says Network Rail, the Act is still in force, and we are compelled to do that, but we have never been asked!
So here is your mission.
Jonathan Madden presented a proposal for a pumped pipleine solution which would be more economic, effective and less destructive than the current OFAS proposal.
Download the proposal here