The Jubilee River, the flood relief scheme, built at a cost to the taxpayer of over 100 million, has had to be repaired after the first time it was operated.
The cost of these repairs, 1.8 million at first estimate, has to be borne by someone. Who knows the FINAL cost?
The scheme is said to have protected some 500 houses built on the flood plain in Maidenhead. The lives of several thousand people and their properties downstream were not so fortunate.
The Environment Agency say the flooding was due to rain. Though how many millions of pounds it cost them to reach this conclusion we do not know!
Surely money must now be spent alleviating flood problems further downstream for those properties that are to be protected and that are equally as important.
For ten years residents of Dorney, Eton Wick, Datchet, Eton, Wraysbury, Old Windsor and further downstream have campaigned and protested against the Jubilee River. They had grave concerns regarding the effect to the properties directly downstream of it.
Are we now expected to pay for the repairs or could the people who designed, commissioned and constructed the Jubilee River pay for it instead?
Come on Environment Agency - Let us know.
Barry Andrews
Old Windsor
The cost of these repairs, 1.8 million at first estimate, has to be borne by someone. Who knows the FINAL cost?
The scheme is said to have protected some 500 houses built on the flood plain in Maidenhead. The lives of several thousand people and their properties downstream were not so fortunate.
The Environment Agency say the flooding was due to rain. Though how many millions of pounds it cost them to reach this conclusion we do not know!
Surely money must now be spent alleviating flood problems further downstream for those properties that are to be protected and that are equally as important.
For ten years residents of Dorney, Eton Wick, Datchet, Eton, Wraysbury, Old Windsor and further downstream have campaigned and protested against the Jubilee River. They had grave concerns regarding the effect to the properties directly downstream of it.
Are we now expected to pay for the repairs or could the people who designed, commissioned and constructed the Jubilee River pay for it instead?
Come on Environment Agency - Let us know.
Barry Andrews
Old Windsor
