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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• Photographs + text - Mark Ollis [Jan 09]
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