Details of the submission that WCRA made to the Woking Borough Council regarding the strategy that is being developed for the Local Development Framework (Woking 2027)
Archive for the ‘Flooding’ Category
Photographs of flooding on proposed housing development site – 17 Jan 2011.
River Wey Flood Risk Management Draft Strategy 2010
Like all residents in the area, you probably experienced a degree of localised flooding following the very heavy rains over the weekend of 27-28 Feb 2010. For example, several of the back-gardens in Moor Lane were once again swamped as the ground was already saturated and the local drainage could not cope. Interestingly, the proposed housing site was also somewhat overcome as you can see from the pictures below: So this begs [ Read More ]
Did you know that in April / May a survey team were drilling on site, for water, with instructions to go 20 or 25mtrs deep. The drilling was carried out by a company called “SI Drilling” (www.sidrilling.co.uk) At the east end of the site they hit water at 4 mtrs and in the west end (at best) they hit water at 7 mtrs down. At no point did they drill through the water to dry land. On this [ Read More ]
Environment Agency maps show housing site is a flooding risk.
The high-level flood risk assessment submitted with the Outline Planning Proposal in 2006 states that The development will increase the amount of surface water from the site It is proposed that surface water will be collected in balancing ponds and discharged to existing ditches on the east of the site! Foul water for the site will be pushed through existing sewers. No review of the existing sewers capacity was carried [ Read More ]
Woking Borough Council publishes a series of detailed maps that supports the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) for the River Wey catchment. They can be found here: Flooding Maps. The SFRA examines the causes, transmission mechanisms and effects of flooding as per the diagram below: I have downloaded and attached the specific maps for our area covering: Environment Agency Flood Map – AppendixB1_DRG04 Detailed Map of River Flooding – AppendixC_DRG04 [ Read More ]
The Environment Agency published a useful online tool to help you assess the flooding risk to your property. It can be accessed at: Flood Assessment Tool So I had a look at the map for our general area: Now lets turn on the flood maps… We are potentially an island! But lets not worry because its a 1:1000 chance of occuring. That sounds like long odds until you factor in [ Read More ]
