Millhouse, Main hub & Meeting place of Castle Sowerby Parish

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MILLHOUSE Flood Action Group, Update.

June 2019

The self appointed Chairman of the MILLHOUSE Flood Action Group, (M.F.A.G.) who has resided in the village only a very short time, recently stated that the author and compiler of this website has been a long term "thorn in their side" towards their projects.

The chairman has termed the author and compiler of this website, who has resided in the village for more than 60 years, the local "Bete Noire".

Website Comment.

It is quite understandable why the MFAG chairman made this comment, (and the name calling) about the author of this website.

To date the chairman of the MFAG has demeaned all credible logical common sense advice offered from "lower rank experienced locals", and this website.

The chairman's routine has been to listen only to highly educated high ranking officials who have absolutely no historic knowledge of :

(a) MILLHOUSE, and the area,

(b) the characteristics of the river, & road drains (past and present) ,

(c) historic and previous flooding events,

(d) source & crescendo details of recent flooding events,

(e) the current flood preventative infrastructures already in place and their very viable previous functions.

(f) and the obvious inability to understand the practical/technical know-how of the 2003 inadvertent detrimental man made changes on the west bank.

This routine has resulted in the MFAG having a very distinct CLOSED SHOP stigma, as the chairman simply hasn't the ability to listen to low rank logical common sense advice.

The chairman has made unforgivable demeaning personal, (name calling) comments about the author & content of this website, (to high rank officials) in relation to the coverage of the aftermath of storm Desmond.

It has been revealed that some quite slanderous, totally unjustified remarks about this website were made to officials at the Environment Agency.

The chairman very publically accused the author of this website as "throwing toys out of his pram", during a public meeting when the website author was presenting the realistic practicality of the flood water crescendo levels during Storm Desmond.
(Audio record of this incident)

The MFAG chairman has also recently been monitored making personal demeaning remarks about the author of this website at a much lower level.

The MFAG chairman's unsustainable self opinions and actions, (due to lack of crucial experience, completely out of touch with practical reality) will ultimately be proved totally unviable after the next flood, and will be duly labeled a prominent negative legacy to him for his lame duck out of tune actions for our beloved MILLHOUSE.

It can now be revealed that the local "Bete Noire", (the author of this website) has now been assigned as an official Castle Sowerby Parish Counciller.

The demeaning, quite slanderous remarks & name calling by the MFAG chairman is regarded as completely out of order and detrimental for the sustainable welfare of MILLHOUSE.

Unlike the self appointed chairman of the MFAG, the local "Bete Noire" , (the author of this website) has a long term, (life time) genuine passion for MILLHOUSE and the area, and is NOT obsessed with self importance.

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For the sake of the inhabitant's future welfare and the crucial sustainability of property value/demand, this website has gone to great lengths to demonstrate in detail how the village of MILLHOUSE has been inadvertently reintroduced to regular flooding from the river Caldew, undoubtedly caused by rapid multiplying stacking behind the low capacity bridge, inflamed by inadvertent significant man made changes on the west bank in 2003.

This website uniquely demonstrates via an intricate photo Survey, the recently reintroduced flooding phenomenon to MILLHOUSE :

https://www.millhouse-hesketnewmarket.com/Desmond/Survey

The quite unique photo survey was carried out soon after the storm Desmond flooding event, with the full intentions of it being a vital aid to provide realistic information to the Environment Agency, to enable a necessary fast-trac remedial plan to be promptly put in to action.

To date, NO such (credible) plan has been instigated.

The reintroduced flooding routine is completely reversible, with a very logical common sense credible rectification to the inadvertent man made changes.

The reintroduced flooding routine commenced in 2005, after a break of more than 40 years. MILLHOUSE enjoyed a blissful Holiday from river orientated flooding, onwards from the completion of the long awaited construction of the village flood defense bank in the 1960's. It was during this period of 40 years when most of the recent flood victim residents of MILLHOUSE bought their homes at a then sustainable market value. The January 2005 flood event was a rude awakening, when unprecedented stacking was experienced behind the 110 year old single arch low capacity bridge, (Funnel/Dam).

3 more repetition flooding events have since occurred, undoubtably due to the incapability of the low capacity bridge, now deprived of its overflow bypass by the 2003 man made changes:

November 2009,

June 2012,

and storm Desmond December 2015.

Until the recommended logical credible remedy is carried out to rectify the low capacity bridge, (now deprived of it's original overflow path) the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE have an unsustainable flood resilience.

The realistic facts are that the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE will be flooded once again during the crescendo of the next extreme storm if no logical action is taken to rectify the serious problem of the low capacity bridge.

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We do welcome you to offer your views about the 4 reintroduced flooding events within the space of a decade which MILLHOUSE has endured since 2005.

(a) Is this phenomenon of 4 repetitive flooding events, and the 2003 blockage of the bridge overflow path just coincidence?

(b) Can global warming be to blame for the 4 flooding events?

(d) Is the capacity of the MILLHOUSE single arch bridge realistically

large enough for the river Caldew in full spate during an extreme storm?

(e) Has the repetitive flooding phenomenon increased or decreased the value and demand of properties in MILLHOUSE and the associated community post code?

(f) Are you willing to offer support towards a united front to push for a logical common sense remedy to get the repetitive flooding phenomenon rectified permanently?

(g) Are you willing to just sit back & take your chances that it may not happen again?

(h) Would you like the property values/demand in MILLHOUSE to become more sustainable?