THE RAYDEN ENGINEERING FLOOD DAMAGE...
The Environment Agency objection to the development of Flood Zone 3 land was based on a Flood Risk Assessment submitted by Rayden Engineering in SUPPORT of developing and using the land for storage. This assessment contained a "typing error" which reduced the size of the development to 170 sm, managing to lose 680 sm of land. Despite this false impression of the actual size of the development, the Environment Agency still OBJECTED based upon INCREASED FLOOD RISK.
8 months after the impervious surface with no drainage had been laid and 5 weeks
after our fifth letter had been sent to EBC Enforcement, telling them for the fifth
time that we would flood as a result of this unauthorised development -
The land occupied by Rayden Engineering adjacent to the flood plain development remained dry apart from ONE puddle. All the surface water had drained onto the recently acquired flood plain where it accumulated before simultaneously flooding all 15 properties.
The flood water remained trapped in these 15 homes for over 14 hours, until with
the aid of industrial pumps the water finally receded remaining trapped on the unauthorised
flood plain development for over 48-
"The Appeal site is OUTSIDE the River Erewash rapid inundation zone should river defences fail."
Rayden Engineering 2nd Flood Risk Assessment.
Altered level of flood land in background.
Rayden Engineering definition of ‘enhanced drainage capacity’!
In the most shameful act of all, whilst the residents were standing on the doorsteps of their water and sewage logged homes in bewilderment amid their ruined possessions, the perpetrator of this damage went down our street in his Mercedes pointing and laughing at the residents, including an 87 year old neighbour standing in tears as filthy water gushed through his home, witnessed by an EBC engineer. Rayden Engineering then spent the entire day taunting the residents with intolerable levels of noise, dust and fumes.
Rayden Engineering had admitted that flood risk would increase and had prior knowledge
through official Reports that damage would accrue. Under the remit of The Criminal
Damage Act, anyone who KNOWINGLY, RECKLESSLY and WILFULLY causes damage is liable
to prosecution. Despite causing over £300 000 worth of criminal damage on the 26th
of June 2007, unlike Rayden Engineering -
"The site lies within a Flood Zone 3 from the River Erewash and there is a culvert running under the site. During high river levels, water emerges from the culvert and floods this area thus the Agency must OBJECT to the proposal..."
“(Rayden Engineering) has levelled the Disputed Land, which enhances its capacity to drain water away and has laid a porous covering on the land...the covering is clearly of a porous nature. It is clear that nothing done to the Disputed Land could cause flooding.”
RAYDEN ENGINEERING:
Laying Type 6F2 recycled aggregate on flood land.
Compaction of hard standing with no drainage
“It is clear that nothing done to the Disputed Land could cause flooding”
RAYDEN ENGINEERING
COMMENT:So if ‘nothing done to the Disputed Land could cause flooding’ and the developed and compacted without drainage stolen flood land ‘is outside the River Erewash rapid inundation zone should river defences fail’ and the ‘flood defences at Ilkeston were not overtopped in the event’ then WHERE EXACTLY did the water come from which flooded 15 Wentworth Street homes adjacent to the flood plain development?
“The Appeal site is largely impermeable.”
JEREMY EAGLES PLANNING INSPECTOR
THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY:
THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY: