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Flooding Questions – for RBWM 25/9/2024

Posted on September 22, 2024September 22, 2024 by ecwlarcombe

The DHW Ward of RBWM has been flooded four times since the construction of the MWEFAS channel (Jubilee River) that improves protection for Windsor, Eton and Maidenhead.

RBWM has failed to ensure that the ordinary watercourses are maintained in a condition fit-for-purpose and failed to meet the partnership funding contribution requirements for the River Thames Scheme.

The following (substantive) questions relating to flooding, flood defence and land drainage infrastructure maintenance will be asked at the RBWM Council Meeting on 25/9/2024.  Written answers to the substantive questions will be published 24 hours before the meeting.  There will then be an opportunity to put a following supplementary question (in person or online) at Council the meeting.

5f)    Simon Williamson of Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury ward will ask the following question of Councillor Coe: Cabinet Member for Household and Regulatory Services

What has the council got planned to support the residents of Hythe End Road Estate, Wraysbury in the event of a flood this winter?

5g)    Simon Williamson of Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury ward will ask the following question of Councillor Coe: Cabinet Member for Household and Regulatory Services

At the Wraysbury Flood Meeting in January, the council confirmed it was currently undertaking a survey of the Wraysbury Drain and aimed to find a solution by the end of this year. Almost eight months on, please advise if this survey has been completed and you are still on schedule to unblock the drain by year end?

8b)  Councillor Ewan Larcombe will ask the following question of Councillor Coe, Cabinet Member for Regulatory Services:

River Thames Scheme Channel One was removed from the flood alleviation project in 2020 because RBWM was unwilling/unable to contribute the required £53m partnership funding. The replacement Datchet to Hythe End Flood Improvement Measures project is moving forwards. Precisely how much partnership funding money will RBWM be contributing towards the new project?

You can watch the proceedings live (or later) on Youtube from 7.00pm on Wednesday 25th September

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DATCHET

The name "Datchet" is thought to be Celtic in origin, and the last part may be related to cet ("wood"). In the Domesday Book it is called "Daceta".lla. Datchet is first mentioned between 990 and 994, when King Ethelred made small grants of land here.

HORTON

The village name "Horton" is a common one in England. It is Old English in origin and derives from the two words horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Hortune.

WRAYSBURY

The village name was traditionally spelt Wyrardisbury; it is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Wïgrǣd's fort'. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wirecesberie and as Wiredesbur in 1195. The name is seen again as Wyrardesbury in 1422.

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