Dredging is not just a one off fix, it has to be done continuously. I used to drink many years ago with the lads that did the dredging around here, when they were made redundant they
forecastthat what is happening now would happen throughout the country.
And the other problem as they saw it, was farmers filling in dykes and waterways. If you think of a dyke 8 to 10 foot wide, and the same in depth, replace this with a 10" circumference pipe, there's bound to be a problem, and yet farmers around here continually complain "I can't ever remember land being this wet before, and it won't drain away", and they're talking of fields where THEY put drainage pipes in, (with grants of course), and i'd gamble they'd soon dig the drains and ditches out again if they were to get another grant.