Should I blame gamekeepers for flooding my home?

[Conor O'Gorman]

No - the shooting community is a solution to reducing flood risks. Flood events are complex and reducing the risk of flooding will take a holistic approach across the whole river catchment, however, this does not grab headlines or make for dramatic sound bites. Targeting and tapping into the misery of flood victims must stop.

Should I blame gamekeepers for flooding my home? - BASC

Gareth Dockerty discusses the relationship between moorland managed for grouse and the flooding of nearby towns and villages.

basc.org.uk

 

[User00040]

However, re-introducing beavers will 100% cause floods to increase.

 

[Foxyboy43]

However, re-introducing beavers will 100% cause floods to increase.

Wot? Darling little beavers - never! Surely they only chew on twigs and little sticky-wickies and couldn’t possibly cause flooding. Err, except maybe on the Tay or every one or two other rivers where they seem to have very large ones with great big teeth….
Bless!

 

[Heym SR20]

Grouse moors, beavers in the uplands and increased habitat through rewiggling streams and rivers, vegetation etc will all hold back water in the uplands.

Putting in roads up into the uplands to plant lots of windarms, large amounts of drainage around footings of windmills and on all the roads to stop them washing away, and lots of drainage for commercial forestry will all result in rainfall not be captured and stored up on the bogs and moors, allowed to seep down into the aquifers to then flow out of springs in a gentle sustained manner

Instead it will come of the hills in spate and build up in the lower catchement on the flood plains where we have now built a huge number of houses. In the lower catchment / flood plain any debris in the river whether its cars, shopping trolleys, trees etc (put there by beavers or not) will cause water to back up and exacerbate any flooding.

It will flood the sewerage treatment works and shote flows into the rivers killing all the life in those rivers.

Best form of flood prevention is to slow down and keep the water in the upper catchment area and let it filter down into the aquifers. And this is much much cheaper that spending millions on flood protection walls around our towns and cities.

We really as a nation absolutely know how to **** things up.

 

[Pete6.5]

Grouse moors, beavers in the uplands and increased habitat through rewiggling streams and rivers, vegetation etc will all hold back water in the uplands.

Putting in roads up into the uplands to plant lots of windarms, large amounts of drainage around footings of windmills and on all the roads to stop them washing away, and lots of drainage for commercial forestry will all result in rainfall not be captured and stored up on the bogs and moors, allowed to seep down into the aquifers to then flow out of springs in a gentle sustained manner

Instead it will come of the hills in spate and build up in the lower catchement on the flood plains where we have now built a huge number of houses. In the lower catchment / flood plain any debris in the river whether its cars, shopping trolleys, trees etc (put there by beavers or not) will cause water to back up and exacerbate any flooding.

It will flood the sewerage treatment works and shote flows into the rivers killing all the life in those rivers.

Best form of flood prevention is to slow down and keep the water in the upper catchment area and let it filter down into the aquifers. And this is much much cheaper that spending millions on flood protection walls around our towns and cities.

We really as a nation absolutely know how to **** things up.

It's not just this nation that know how to **** things up.