Irland im Sturm: Hochwassersperren werden uns nicht retten, wenn wir das Land weiterhin trockenlegen
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm-chandra-nature-based-solutions-6946724-Feb2026/
Von karmaisforlife
Irland im Sturm: Hochwassersperren werden uns nicht retten, wenn wir das Land weiterhin trockenlegen
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm-chandra-nature-based-solutions-6946724-Feb2026/
Von karmaisforlife
9 Kommentare
Yep, that’s pretty much it. When it comes to Midleton, as mentioned in the article for instance, there have been car parks and housing estates built on flood plains with still more on the way. People get shocked when these places flood and with nowhere else for the water to go, it causes other places to flood that didn’t flood before or do so more severely.
Rinse and repeat all over the country. It’s only going to get worse as the weather gets wetter and more extreme.
Edit: tidied up the comment.
Pretty funny hearing Padraic advocating for introducing a non-native species to Ireland.
Even if we did all he suggests, we would still need flood barriers. They aren’t two separate things. The likes of Cork, Middleton, Enniscorthy etc are all built on natural flood plains and/or reclaimed land. These are areas which have flooded for hundreds of years.
Looking at a wider river basin based approach is needed.
We’re also building housing estates and adding more and more hard surfaces without any green space at all and then not including adequate storm drainage. You’ve seen that with a few weird flooding incidents where water just sloshed down into urban valleys in cloudburst rain.
More fucking trees… Most of the island is supposed to be a temperate rain forest
The current weather is a perfect example of just one of the reasons why new housing nowadays is more complicated. And there’s no easy solution.
Go back sixty years, and things like flood risks weren’t as important as now. Or at least future proofed. Then areas flooded. And other things like ecological reports, which are vital to the wider ecosystem protection, weren’t even a consideration.
While I’m not saying these shouldn’t be done, they should, these things are additional barriers to quicker building. And so time and time again when we see posts on here of people who can’t grasp why the government doesn’t just build faster with shovels in the ground, we are now seeing in action some of the considerations into quicker building. And this is only one part of it.
„compacted soil under the weight of millions of farm animals“ haha, what a gobshite.
Before the famine when we had almost 9 million people walking around, it’s a wonder we didn’t sink the country into the sea 😂
Wait a second, so urban sprawl and covering the country in low rise isn’t a good idea!? Someone should tell the authorities
One thing that’s been absolutely consistent with Irish governments is contempt for the idea that land can be used for anything other than production. Every inch is pressured, we’re down to squeezing the hedges now.
Why? Because there’s money to be made, along with deep rooted contempt for land and natural spaces.
There’s no doubt that destroying native forest, wetlands, and flood plains causes flooding. There is no doubt that climate is changing.
We could turn this around in a decade if we decided to. We have money and people to do the work.
Will we? Almost guaranteed no.
Arterial drainage while an environmental disaster, expensive and perpetual does work. Look at those rivers that have it, very little flooding associated with it.
Beavers are an alien species, not sure how that would work.
He mentions a lot of good points about land use, drainage etc. this typical benefit a certain type of flooding – creates storage for rainfall when it falls, slows the flood etc. Think torrential thunderstorms etc. It’s being raining for weeks, there is no storage anywhere, we keep being told the land is saturated, trees can’t soak anything more up right now. We have to be honest about saying things are a solution!
If your house floods, you’ve built on a floodplain by definition. If it was me, I wouldn’t want myself being protected by performance of beavers,. The clonakilty scheme while a bit brutalist with concrete has a massive storage area upstream of the down part of flood relief scheme. Give me that any day.