>> The system depends more on managing water in flood than in physically preventing encroachment. There
>> are designated areas of storage, productive land that is deliberately flooded first to reduce damage.
Welney is a classic example, between the new and old Bedford Rivers (rivers they aint - man made they is) and area designed as water catchment, but it always features heavily in the news when peeps try and take the road through the middle during planned flood times, and its always a shock news item, tho all the locals know its designed that way.
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