Important flood review meeting this next Monday

This is a very important meeting for all the people of Ulverston especially those from South Ulverston:

This Monday 28th June 2010 at 7:00 in the Coronation Mail Hall

It follows what I found to be a shambolic meeting last December chaired bythe then Mayor Norman Bishop-Rowe when a lot of questions were asked and very few answered. One at which I found out far more by talking to the Environment Agency Representative after the meeting than during.

This time, the meeting called, by the new Mayor Phil Lister, to review the findings and progress it is very important. We must be told, as exactly as possible, why the flooding occurred in and around the houses. The issues are not simple.

The residents I believe have some mistaken beliefs of the causes of their problems. As a result ever since the December Meeting they have clamoured for the wrong things to be done to remedy the situation. The town drains and the level of tarmac are not, I believe, the main problem, the control of the river is.

If we get a clear description of the sequence of events from the experts then people can make judgements as to what the priorities should be.

The only people's opinion I would trust is that of the Environment Agency as they are the only people who want to truth to come out. They benefit from a campaign based on their facts, as they can then hope that public pressure, put on the government will result for more funds for the Agency to improve the solution to the problem.

All the other agencies are more likely to try to make out that it wasn't their fault.

The Town in my opinion have a responsibility to make sure that when something similar - or worse happens next, there are clear sets of actions that will immediately happen.

The residents and Ulverstonians in general need to have confidence in the system so that it reaches as fair and quick a result as possible.

I believe if little is done, we will have an even worse disaster within the next five years.

I also believe that whatever is done, in the long term South Ulverston will certainly get flooded so in the long term we must plan for this.