... of the surface area of the UK. Seen from an aeroplane they are just scratchmarks, and by and large they are all properly drained. Drained to where? and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. After 2 or 3 days heavy rain the soil can't absorb any more water anyway and behaves just like concrete or tarmac as far as ...

... If anything, more, properly drained, hard surfacing would reduce the problem. I live on a well-protected flood plain and part of that protection is a pumping station that removes surface water run-off through a ... big enough to contain the increased run-off due to hard surfacing, that is why your garden is flooding. So nothing to do with clay under the topsoil then Doug?

...area of the UK. Seen from an aeroplane they are just scratchmarks, and by and large they are all properly drained. Drained to where? Ultimately the sea. and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. After 2 or 3 days heavy rain the soil can't absorb any more water anyway and behaves just like concrete or tarmac as...

... reduce the problem. I live on a well-protected flood plain and part of that protection is a pumping station ...-off due to hard surfacing, that is why your garden is flooding. Which part of "flood plain" are you failing to comprehend, you cretin? The fundamental problem is that the ever-... precisely because IT IS, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, LOWER THAN THE WATER TABLE SO FLOODS NATURALLY.

... are just scratchmarks, and by and large they are all properly drained. Drained to where? and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. After 2 or 3 days heavy rain the soil can't... soil area, as there used to be, it could contain more water. -- UK Radical Campaigns www.zing.icom43.net One man's road is another man's flooding.

...experience of the author, I managed to get rid of flooding in my garden by laying hard surfacing. I used it...would reduce the problem. I live on a well-protected flood plain and part of that protection is a pumping station ...due to hard surfacing, that is why your garden is flooding. -- UK Radical Campaigns www.zing.icom43.net One man's garden is another man's flooding.

... motorways 'tiny' They are a tiny proportion of the surface area of the UK. Seen from an aeroplane they are just scratchmarks, and by and large they are all properly drained. and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. After 2 or 3 days heavy rain the soil can't absorb any more water anyway and behaves just like concrete or tarmac as far as ...

... wanting to cram houses in and planners letting them. By contrast the amount of the land covered by roads themselves is tiny , and cramming houses in means less miles of roads rather than more I'd hardly call motorways 'tiny' and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. How do you turn a car park into a car park Doug?

... out of hand. Here goes then: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributor... Contrary to the experience of the author, I managed to get rid of flooding in my garden by laying hard surfacing. I used it to raise the ground level in that part of the garden by a few inches, which took it above the winter ground...

... letting them. By contrast the amount of the land covered by roads themselves is tiny , and cramming houses in means less miles of roads rather than more I'd hardly call motorways 'tiny' and it all adds to flooding, as do car parks and front gardens turned into car parks. -- World Carfree Network http://www.worldcarfree.net/ Help for your car-addicted friends in the U.K.