Measures to be put in place pending completion of ‘complex’ €50m flood relief scheme for town at risk of flooding from four separate sources
Cork County Council said river level monitoring gauges will be installed at key locations in both the Owenacurra and Dungourney river catchments. Photograph: Guileen Coast Guardto examine interim measures that can be put in place pending the completion of the €50 million Midleton Flood Relief Scheme to prevent any repeat of the damage caused to the town last month by floods during Storm Babet.
The OPW said the Midleton Flood Relief Scheme , launched after flooding in the town in December 2015 and January 2016, is one of the most complex in the country because the town is at the confluence of the Owenacurra and Dungourney rivers and near the Midleton estuary, making it vulnerable to flooding from several sources.
According to the state agency, data did not exist in 2017 on all four sources of flood risk for the town and monitoring was required over a number of years to obtain a proper understanding of the flooding mechanism in the town which is built on the floor of a limestone valley. At last month’s meeting of Cork County Council, several councillors from the East Cork Municipal District urged Cork County Council and the OPW to progress the Midleton FRS as quickly as possible with some arguing it was the only solution to preventing a repeat of last month’s flood damage.
“An essential part of our flood defences needs to involve working with nature – strategic planting of vegetation and trees that soak up water, the construction of wetlands, paying farmers to develop practices that reduce the amount of excess rainfall flowing off agricultural land.”
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