The Environment.

You can only move a flood somewhere - either upstream or downstream
No, that's also wrong.
If he'd engaged with those in charge then there would have been a flurry of Tree Protection Orders and other obstructions thrown in the way of solving the problem.
There already were. He ignored them and went to prison with the other criminals.
 
The wigglifying will be happening around open farmland. Not in towns or villages, where you want to let the stuff get out as easily as possible.
... He straightened out and dug out the meandering river around his farm. You know absolutely nothing about this story do you?
 
... He straightened out and dug out the meandering river around his farm. You know absolutely nothing about this story do you?
Ooh stroppy. Big bad attitude doesn't make up for being wrong though.

It's a farm. On the edge of a village. Where people live.

It's not open countryside.

It's here...

 
Ooh stroppy. Big bad attitude doesn't make up for being wrong though.

It's a farm. On the edge of a village. Where people live.

It's not open countryside.

It's here...

He does it on every subject --- dives in like he knows all about it but he doesn’t
 

Yes, "the lowest form of wit". But commonly used in English, especially in the UK.

Hope that helps you.
No help at all.
Are you suggesting that when you refer to people being do-gooders, you actually mean they are doing bad things, but when you talk of people doing good, they are not do-gooders because they are doing good?

I don’t see how any of your do good nonsense makes any sense, no.
 
If you mean the Somerset Levels, they are a flood plain, and they are meant to flood, or at least be mostly marshland. There's a reason why many of the village names in that part of the world contain the Old English designation for "island".

The important lessons we have chronically failed to learn (and not just there) are those which show what hubris it is to think we can successfully engineer nature out of existence.

They were dredged regularly until the EA funding was cut by half. Yes, they've always flooded but not to the extent they have since maintenance was reduced.
 
If you mean the Somerset Levels, they are a flood plain, and they are meant to flood, or at least be mostly marshland. There's a reason why many of the village names in that part of the world contain the Old English designation for "island".

The important lessons we have chronically failed to learn (and not just there) are those which show what hubris it is to think we can successfully engineer nature out of existence.
So... abandon the place, knock all the houses down?
 
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