The Wraysbury Drain is an important, ancient and mostly hidden but abandoned land drainage channel in East Berkshire. Having been blocked for years this waterway is now an elongated lake of stagnant water that promotes flooding after significant precipitation events.
So let me try for yet another petition along the following lines:
RBWM is responsible for the condition of the ancient channel known as the Wraysbury Drain. Today the channel has the qualities of a stagnant swamp and the potential to cause flooding. This critical piece of land drainage infrastructure has been blocked for years and needs urgent attention.
RBWM is the designated lead local flood authority with responsibility for ordinary watercourses. RBWM has appropriate permissive and enforcement powers. The Wraysbury Drain has been the subject of previous petitions but is still not fit for purpose. The channel needs urgent attention.
Below are the links/details of two previous petitions:
Link to a previous RBWM petition dated 2023
ePetition – Practice flood defence equality
Link to Su Burrows 2014 petition
https://rbwm.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?Id=25
It is unacceptable that the RBWM should fail to act upon their responsibility to maintain the Wraysbury Drain. It is furthermore unacceptable that promises be made and not delivered for such a period of time between the disaster of the 2003 flood and the recent 2014 flooding. The people of Wraysbury call upon the RBWM to act with urgency in this matter.
Started by: Su Burrows
This ePetition ran from 28/01/2014 to 28/04/2014 and has now finished.
310 people signed this ePetition.