A view of two 12" pipes installed as an amateur culvert in the critical dyke between Scalby Lane and Chestnut Drive. Note that a 3 foot diameter council installed culvert lies upstream of this. Simple junior school mathematics show a 3 foot pipe to have a cross section area of 7.1 square feet - a 12" pipe has a cross section area of only 0.78 square feet. This is one of the deliberate bottlenecks of the critical dyke. Further downstream the dyke has not been desilted for thirty years and other bottlenecks also exist through this neglect. Until the early 1980s the Lower Ouse Drainage Board maintained this dyke on a voluntary basis but abandoned this and the dyke has become silted and obstructed since that time.
The photo attached to this post has been taken from private land which belongs to myself and mywife. This photo can only have been taken by trespassing on our property and we have not consented to any individual entering our property for any purpose. I demand that you identify yourself to us.
ReplyDeletePeter Colley. 07779412114
The photograph was supplied to me by an officer of the council which you may be aware has a statutory right of entry to land. However I understand the photograph was taken from a position within the width of the dyke and therefore not from your property. I am also aware that you have been advised of my identity.
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