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Just over a month ago Storm Desmond wrought havoc across the North. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The BBC's Danny Savage was in Cumbria, as the flood water | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
surged into thousands of homes and businesses. | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Many of them were uninsured - unable to afford the premiums | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
demanded in the wake of previous floods, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
and as Danny's discovered, a scheme that's promising to put | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
MUSIC: Dark Water by D M Ecks | :00:28. | :00:43. | |
AUDIO CLIPS FROM RADIO CUMBRIA: It is absolutely | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Watching the inevitable happen, basically. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
It's a mess, it's the trauma, it's the upset, it's the fact | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
that it goes on for months and, you know, it seems | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
And you sit there and think, I can't go through this agahn. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
It's just the most awful emotional strain. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
MUSIC: Dark Water by D M Ecks | :01:03. | :01:24. | |
Well, this is Warwick Road in Carlisle. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
This was the worst affected part of the city back | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
The bridge is cordoned off tonight because it has structural problems | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
and they're worried it could give way. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
But the local residents are out and they are really worried | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
there will be a repeat of what happened here ten years ago, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
and that all these houses that have been renovated and repaired | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
I'm kind of thinking the worst, really. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Across the North West, vital infrastructure is hamlered. | :01:49. | :02:03. | |
Well, this is a car park right in the centre of Carlisle, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
completely covered in water, and it has risen | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
really quickly over the last few hours, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
but the real thing is over this fence here - | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
take a look at this. | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
You can just about see the overhead gantries, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
and instead of railway tracks, you can't see anything - | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Across town, water has breached the city's flood defences. | :02:21. | :02:46. | |
I just need to talk to this old couple. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
We have a drain in our back garden and it's coming | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
up through the drain there rather quickly. | :02:52. | :02:52. | |
I don't want you to stand out in the cold... | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Some people are grabbing what they can, and leaving. | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
My wife is out and my son is on his way. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
We are just cleaning my stuff out of the house - | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
not much we can do really, just get out. | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Others plan to sit it out, like Vanessa - | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
It's just been a bit hectic, and my mam does not want to move | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
at all - she did not even want me moving her stuff up the stahrs. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
2005 - they said it was a hundred-year-flood, | :03:29. | :03:43. | |
and it has happened again, and that's with the flood defences. | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
30 miles away, Sue Cashmore has retreated upstairs. | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Well, here we are - a repeat of 2009. | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Just five foot of water in the house at the moment, sat up | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
here in the dark, candle light, with my little dog. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
I'm just going to make a cup of tea because | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
And unfortunately this time no insurance, so I don't know what I'm | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Couches have gone, kitchen has gone, all the utilities have gone. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Just hope the boiler doesn't get it, because that's very expensive. | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
I'm going to have to do quite a bit of overtime next year I think - | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
all that work for the flood defences and they didn't | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Across the county, the flooding is unstoppable. | :04:25. | :04:38. | |
So that's your back garden, completely | :04:39. | :04:39. | |
In the house further down, it is probably about a metre. | :04:40. | :04:54. | |
The situation has got so series now on the Warwick | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
Road in Carlisle that they have brought in these rescue boats now. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
They will be taken off the trailer, down the road, to help people get | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
They are going to work through the night. | :05:12. | :05:31. | |
Daylight - a flood of biblical proportions. | :05:32. | :05:55. | |
She is 94, nearly 95, and this is the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
second time this has happened, so... (EMOTIONAL) | :06:00. | :06:00. | |
Vanessa's mum, Florence, has finally been persuaded | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
She looked that tiny when she was originally sitting | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
with this little fridge, you know, and I said, | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
that's the fridge boat, Mam, so I think | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
they rescued quite a few in that, in the flood. | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
they rescued quite a few after that, in the fridge boat. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
This is the A591, the main link between Ambleside and Keswick. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
The bridge that gave Pooley Bridge its name is gone. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
By the end of the weekend, questions are mounting. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
We were told it was going to be after these defences, | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
it was a once-in-a-250-year event, and here | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
we are ten years later, ?38 million and ten years l`ter | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
I feel that we have been fed a bit of | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
And in Cockermouth, Sue is still trapped | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Hoping tomorrow the water will get low enough | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
so I can get out. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Pretty devastating everywhere, from what I can gather. | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
Had no contact with my parents so I don't know | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
I phoned it at six o'clock this morning so I have had no contact | :07:25. | :07:37. | |
I have been talking to my neighbours through the window | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
I was going to say, there were bottles of champagne | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
This is my Christmas stocking, for Christmas Day! | :07:45. | :08:12. | |
For days, there will be nothing to do | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Villages have been marooned. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
And landslides have added to the chaos created by floods, | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
which have cut main roads and railways. | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
Flooding is nothing new in Cumbria, but one expert thinks | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
If you look back to the 1960s, we have witnessed | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
about a 30% increase in winter rainfall in my lifetime. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Now, looking ahead, using the climate | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
models, by the 2050s I can dxpect another 15% increase in the future | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Adding that together, we can expect maybe a 45%, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
perhaps 50%, increase in winter rainfall in my lifetime. | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
So is it possible to protect the county from | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
?38 million was spent buildhng flood defences in Carlisle after the 2005 | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
?6 million was spent in Keswick and ?4.4 million in Cockermouth. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
They all failed to stop flooding, and 51 flood defence | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
schemes in Cumbria and the North West await funding. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
In Kendal, there's pressure to reinstate some of those | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
There's one for the River Kent just down the road from here, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
which is on the shelf, which they could just take off | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
and fund - they could do that almost right away, | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
but there will be other schemes that could be drawn up to prevent | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
this kind of thing happening agahn. | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
This is obviously a level of something we are going to h`ve | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
to expect again in the future - in which case it saves money | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
and a lot of grief if we can prevent it with proper | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
But as the mopping up continues down the road, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the arguments may seem a bit academic. | :09:39. | :10:04. | |
Wildman Street is noted for it, and now it has happened it can | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Something is going to have to happen, because every tile it | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
rains we are all going to be mad panicking. | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
Sorry... (CRYING) | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
And in Cockermouth, Sue's fhnally been able to leave her bedroom, | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
I've spent the last ten days cleaning two houses, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
because my parents have been flooded as well. | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
I don't have insurance, so it is about salvaging thhs house | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
the best I can and today is the first day I've had anytime | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
And I feel angry, I do feel angry - I have worked hard all my life | :10:42. | :10:54. | |
- I have raised two kids on my own and now I have to rely | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
on the generosity of others because I could not get instrance | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
and I've lost quite a lot really. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
And sadly for Sue an insurance scheme that could have helped | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
This flood has been out there for two years now and it has | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
not been signed off by Prudential yet. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Until I see it on a table and when they say | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
it is a definite and signed off I am not convinced. | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
For many, insurance has been unaffordable because it was just too | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
expensive, so despite the ndw flood defences in Cockermouth, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Keswick and Carlisle Insurance for some is impossible to get ? | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
After the floods that floored parts of the south in 2014 the industry | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
came up with a plan to make sure people with homes at risk | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
of flooding could get the cover they needed and it's called Flood | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Well, I think Flood Re is a very positive thing. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Mary Dhonau's advised the insurance industry on the creation of Flood Re | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
- it'll start in April and should guarantee every home owner | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
I have talked to people whose excess is going to be ?10,000 | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
It is excellent news for thdm and the light at the end | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
of the tunnel really for people who have been flooded | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
because I have talked to so many people who live | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
in fear of flooding again not knowing how they are going to afford | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
This way people will be abld to afford flood insurance, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
it will be guaranteed for high risk, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
but only for houses that have been built before 2009. | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
But it will come too late for people flood of this winter. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
This has been talked about for three years. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
In effect and look at what has happened in the meantime. -, but it | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
happened in the meantime. -- but it still has not come into effdct. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Why has Flood Re taken so long? | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
Flood Re is a complex from the systems built we rdquire | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
and insurers require from getting legislation through Governmdnt | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
to getting regulatory approval from the regulators. | :13:11. | :13:11. | |
This is something that is complex and | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
I have been talking to a lady in Cockermouth who had at premium | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
She did not take it out, could not afford it, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
and now her home is ruined and she has no | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
What can you say to people like that about their futurd? | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Quite simply, it is people like that that reason why we are building | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Flood Re - it is exactly for people who struggle to afford home | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
insurance, because they live in areas at the risk of flooding. | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
But, as we've heard, the skin doesn't cover housds | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
built after 2009, and earlidr this month MPs raised concerns it doesn't | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
The Prime Minister has promised to investigate... | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
We are looking very carefully at this scheme, | :13:47. | :13:47. | |
particularly on the issue of the businesses. | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
What we've heard so far is a number of anecdotal stories about small | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
businesses saying it's going to be very difficult to get insurance. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Meanwhile, the insurance colpanies are telling us they won't turn down | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
any small businesses, so we need to get to the bottom | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Absolutely key, before we gdt the final introduction of Flood Re | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
So the new scheme requires ` home to be in a recognised flood area | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
on a map, like this one drawn up by the Environment Agency. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
It shows which areas are most at risk of flooding and which have | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
had protection schemes added to reduce the risk. | :14:18. | :14:18. | |
The agency maps are used by a commercial organisation, | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
which passes on information to the people running Flood Re, | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
so it's vital the information is up to date and accurate. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
But, as I have discovered, that's not always the case. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Hi, Lynne - I'm Danny from the BBC... | :14:31. | :14:47. | |
Lynne runs a B in Keswick and has been flooded three times | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
She had insurance, but stills faces a huge bill. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Our excess was ?10,000, or 25% of the claim - | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
So, as soon as I got flooded, I lost ?10,000 full stop. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
If you look at the maps which are actually online... | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
And to rub salt into the wound, Lynne was paying a higher premium | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
than she needed to because the Environment Agency map | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
on which her insurance was based on was wrong. | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
They had our flood risk as being higher than it | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
actually should have been, and that applies to probably | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
The consequence of that is a lot of people could not afford hnsurance | :15:20. | :15:34. | |
for flooding, and did not take out flood insurance cover, | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
and now they have lost everxthing, and they are devastated. | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
So whose responsibility is ht to make sure the information | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
Well, in the intial phase it's the EA flood maps which have got | :15:42. | :15:53. | |
to be correct and the info has to be passed on and the people sitting | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
at the desks that are doing the mapping have got to unddrstand | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
the work they are doing is not a paper exercise - | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
it actually has an effect on people's lives | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
After talking to many people in Cumbria, I went to talk | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
to the Environment Agency to get some answers. | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
One woman in Keswick has said to us, 'the people sitting at the desks | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
that are doing the mapping have got to understand | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
the work they are doing is not a paper exercise it actually has | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
an effect on peoples lives and it can be catastrophic.' | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
I would absolutely agree and this is not just a paper | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
exercise - this whole series of incidents for me is about people, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
we talk a lot about record rainfall and flood defences and propdrties | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
so with 6500 properties flooded that is 25,000 people. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
My people and those teams on the ground | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
are part of those communitids and I feel really strongly our main | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
On the issue of insurance Flood Re is due to come in this year and it | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
will be using information from your maps. | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
Isn't it vital then that your maps are spot on for future reference? | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
It is a complex issue and we will continue to evolve | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
and finesse this, and whether we get to a perfect point I doubt, | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
because I think the rivers the types | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
of events we see as our climate changes means that this | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
will continue to evolve there are some real focal points now | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
following the recent events and they will be our priority areas | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
It has been a catastrophic month for Cumbria. | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
Can you give people there any | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
I think the reassurance we can give is that we will continue to work | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
really hasrd with partners and the community to do whatever | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
we can to reduce the risk of flooding and the impact | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
of flooding so we need to continue to work with those communithes | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
all year round not just to be seen to be turning up when it is raining. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
But it's all too late for the thousands caught out | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
After Desmond came Eva bringing more rain to the north | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
The Government has promised ?50 million of emergency funds | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
for families and businesses struggling to get back on their feet | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
And ?40 million to repair roads and bridges. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
But there's no word yet on loney for new flood defences. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
After being here on the night that Cumbria flooded, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
the damage I have seen since then has been | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
extraordinary, thousands and thousands of people are trying | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
But having talked to people the overwhelming feeling | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
is unless the flood defences of Cumbria are improved | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
From Cumbria, to Northumberland and on to Yorkshire the repair bill | :18:52. | :19:17. | |
Here in York some families believe they could have been | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
spared the misery of the destructive deluge. | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
Paul Hudson's been assessing the damage and asking | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
what we can learn from previous floods? | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
It's Boxing Day and the citx of York is under threat ? again. | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
York is used to floods ? the River Ouse has entered homes | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
and businesses many times over the years. | :19:35. | :19:35. | |
But this time it was the smaller river ? the Foss - | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
I think it's absolutely terrible if people | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
It's clearly not a natural phenomenon that's caused | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
It's a man-made problem that's created this. | :19:47. | :19:58. | |
This is the now infamous Foss barrier - its job is to protect | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
But when it was lifted, hundreds of homes were flooded | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
and residents want to know why. | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
So where did the water start coming in? | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
It came through the tiles in the utility room... | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
Martin Shoobridge and Julie Butters live in Huntington Road. | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
The Foss runs right behind their house but despite an automated | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
warning from the Environment Agency on Boxing Day they didn't rdally | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
believe their house would be flooded. | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
It was Boxing Day afternoon on the Sunday and we just looked out | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
of the window and it looked like there were quite a few people | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
I went out about an hour later and thought... | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
While we were stood there, you could see it coming up the road, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Did you have any urgency in moving your stuff | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Martin was like "I'm going to have my tea." | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
As the evening wore on, the water crept ever nearer | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Still at that point, we thought we'll lift some stuff | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
upstairs but it's probably not going to come in. | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
About five in the morning, we heard an almighty crash so I came | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
downstairs and there was two foot of water in the hallway. | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
So I waded through into the kitchen and two fridge freezers | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
There's no doubt that the rainfall figures | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
for both November and December were extraordinary but Martin | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
and Julie and other residents in Huntington Road believe | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
that the flooding to their houses was directly caused by the decision | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
I think it's just the question of, had it been avoidable? | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
If the answer to that is yes, that is extremely infurating. | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
They know all about the devastating effects | :22:00. | :22:00. | |
of flooding in the small town of Norton in North Yorkshird. | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
Mind the garden. In 1999 it was probably about three foot... | :22:09. | :22:24. | |
Di Keal is a local councillor but has also been flooded ott | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
We were out of the house after the first flood for about 12 | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
months and we'd been back in the house for four months | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
After the devastating floods of 2000, just over ?10 millhon | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
was spent on flood defences to protect Malton and Norton | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
But, even so, since Boxing Day, the council and Environment Agency | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
have been pumping water 24/7 to stop riverside properties from flooding. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
You can see the wall in the distance there | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
and this is actually flood wall as wdll. | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
That does keep the Derwent within its banks. | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
As you can also see with thd pumping that's going on behind us | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
there are still problems with water on the dry side. | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
So every time there is a flood, in the back | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
of your mind, you're thinking, "Will this flood defence hold?" | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
Exactly, and in 2012 there was water coming | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
It was very, very high - only about two bricks from the top | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
of the defences so it's a constant anxiety. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
But what happens when the flood defence that you think will protect | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
While we were filming, representatives from | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
the Environment Agency turndd up in Huntington Road. | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
Martin and Julie let them know exactly how they felt. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
If it was a decision made that led to this level | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
of devastation, people need to be held accountable and compensation | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
We need to await the investhgation into what happened. | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
So apparently there will be an investigation but it seels | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
this is not the first time | :23:59. | :23:59. | |
In this flood risk assessment produced in 2011, | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
which came to light last week thanks to BBC Radio York, | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
it is made clear that the Foss barrier failed for three to four | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
hours in the floods of November 2000. | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
It goes on to say that, 'Flooding in the River Foss | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
catchment was only narrowly avoided.' | :24:37. | :24:37. | |
The pumps were refurbished after the floods | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
of 2000 but as this document states, flood mapping undertaken | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
by the Environment Agency in 20 4 shows 'that the greatest risk | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
of flooding from the River Foss to the city of York | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
is as a direct result of the capacity of the pumps | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
And that's exactly what happened on Boxing Day. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
So I've come to ask the Environment Agency | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
Who made the decision to allow the 600 properties along | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
The river levels in the Foss were higher than those in the Ouse | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
and if we hadn't raised the barrier as a result of that around 600 | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Those 600 are part of a widdr 1 00 properties would but had the barrier | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
remained in place they would have flooded anyway. | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
and tragic for those people who were and tragic for those people who were | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
flooded, but had the barrier remained in place, they would have | :25:33. | :25:33. | |
been flooded anyway. So just to be clear, | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
what you're saying is, that whether the barrier | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
was in the up or down position, those 600 properties would have | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
flooded come what may? Those 600 properties | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
would have flooded. So I guess the bottom line hs why | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
is this barrier not more resilient? Why did it fail to cope | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
with the volume of water OK - what was happening, | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
and we need to do further investigations | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
to understand exactly why this happened, was that water was coming | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
up through the floor The building is designed to be | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
resilient so we need to investigate If we need to make changes to make | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
the barrier more resilient, we will do that. | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
As for the future, is the barrier going to be | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
changed to cope with ever higher river levels? | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
As part of making sure we repair the pumping station and makd it | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
as resilient as possible we will look at increasing | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
the pumping capacity but that will be part of a longer | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
So in the short term you can't reassure the residents if that type | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
If that type of event happens again the pumps will work | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
We will find out what happened which means we wouldn't have to shut down | :26:48. | :27:11. | |
the pumps in the way we did. On the cupboard, and thankfully it did not | :27:12. | :27:12. | |
come up high enough to get there. So little comfort then | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
for Martin and Julie ? currently staying at a hotel in York | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
while work continues And over in Norton, Di Keal is in no | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
doubt that money ? a lot of money - is needed to defend people's | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
homes against flooding. Do you think we can justify spending | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
millions and millions of pounds of taxpayers | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
money on what will be Yes, I do and I feel | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
strongly about it. But I think the Government really | :27:39. | :27:50. | |
needs to take it seriously. It's not the way any of us | :27:51. | :28:01. | |
would have wanted to welcomd in the New Year ? A resoluthon | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
is what everyone wants but it may be Hello, I'm Sophie Long | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
with your 90 second update. Talks to avoid a second | :28:09. | :28:20. | |
doctors' strike in England The government says it'll force | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
through new contracts, Hospitals are battling to reschedule | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
thousands of postponed operations Four men have been arrested | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
on suspicion of child neglect at this young offenders | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
centre in Kent. Panorama had footage that appears | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
to show G4S staff using An avalanche in the French Alps | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
has swept away a party of schoolchildren. | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
Three are known to have died. Child killer Robert Black died | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
yesterday in prison. | :28:52. | :28:55. |