Management

Post Carlisle Floods

Three different Strategies

Strategies considered here

• Flood Storage at Holme Head [Denton Holme

• Building floodwalls atop existing embankments [Carlisle United]

• Flood plain maximisation on the Peterill

Holme Head Storage Scheme

The new bridge at the lower end of an extended flood plain storage scheme

Work underway

Note the new river wall beside the builder

The new river wall downstream from the storage area

The new sewer

Passing behind St Aidans school the new sewer will replace a ft diameter pipe

Flood Gate and bank extensionCarlisle United

Gate Detail

Bank protecting stadium and

wall protecting housing

Do you think this is sufficient protection?

Peterill Bridge

The path up and over the realigned embankment and down into the wider flood plain

Below monitoring station [already grafittied] and drainage culvert

Line of the river

Original left bank [East]

Down stream of the bridge flood walls exist on both sides – gate is closed

Carlisle United

Peterill Bridge and the widened Flood Plain

New Sewer

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