Should we get rid of The River Lee?

theglobe

Why dont we try and close up the river and redirect the water elsewhere? It's causing serious problems year after year.

sawdoubters

where would all the water that flows into the river go

it would flood cork

ShamoBuc

theglobe wrote: »

Why dont we try and close up the river and redirect the water elsewhere? It's causing serious problems year after year.

Not very well thought out:pac:

Sonics2k

I don't think you have quite understand how it works.

Also, a Cork without the River Lee is like a sky without stars. Its just wrong!

theglobe

theglobe wrote: »

Why dont we try and close up the river and redirect the water elsewhere? It's causing serious problems year after year.

or they could dredge it or install some kind of flood barrier system....... you know realistic options

kippy

Itd be easier to move the city.

eyescreamcone

Cataleya Polite U-boat wrote: »

or they could dredge it or install some kind of flood barrier system....... you know realistic options

Exactly - rather than handing out sandbags - when the water is coming into buildings through the plumbing in a lot of cases.

Anything would be better than the present non existing system.

Reminds me of the Fr.Ted episode where the only solution to a problem was to have a mass!

BanzaiBk

Cataleya Polite U-boat wrote: »

or they could dredge it or install some kind of flood barrier system....... you know realistic options

No no, let's just get rid of it.

theglobe

Good to see some support for it here. I'll set up a facebook petition tomorrow and link it here. Thanks for all the support.

beer enigma

Where's the plug ?

aujopimur

Divert it thru' Limerick.:D

theglobe

What we need to do is put a cork in it and remove the cork. In all honesty though, is there a more disrespected river in Ireland? When I see tourists take pictures of it I always have a little chuckle to myself.

horgan_p

Where would we sport and play ?

Dannyboy83

Apparently flood barriers still won't solve the problem in Cork.
It requires a tidal barrier if I understood correctly.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88279022&postcount=45

bogman

Cataleya Polite U-boat wrote: »

or they could dredge it

We used to for years, the Ringacoltig did a great job daily dredging the lower river, wonder why they stopped, terrible idea



Todays problems would be much less if it was still running

jimgoose

"By the banks of my own lovely sort-of-Wadi-thing-where-the-Lee-used-to-be"... no, not gonna fly.

Markcheese

They still dredge it, well they were doing it a few years ago,
They need to dredge the top of the river though , the river bed never floods ...

downonthefarm

While ye are at it get rid if cork too

ShamoBuc

downonthefarm wrote: »

While ye are at it get rid if cork too

Go backtoyourfarm

Rega

downonthefarm wrote: »

While ye are at it get rid if cork too

If cork what?

downonthefarm

If cork and Kilkenny had a fight who would win

irish bloke

downonthefarm wrote: »

If cork and Kilkenny had a fight who would win

Limerick

Cantremember

Divert it into Kerry

FHB

I say we outsource the river to India.

downonthefarm

Sell some it to Dublin like they want to do with the Shannon

periodictable

How about getting rid of Cork by allowing the Lee to flood? Cork is slowly dipping into the sea anyway....

ShamoBuc

periodictable wrote: »

How about getting rid of Cork by allowing the Lee to flood? Cork is slowly dipping into the sea anyway....

Lets practice with dublin first.....start small like.

daedal

I reckon we should just submerge Cork and build a hydroelectric dam to power Limerick.

Tommy Dillon

I think this is God trying to tell you something... maybe stop being a bunch of arrogant, whinging, jealous shower of langers. you will never be the capital and thats that

RidleyRider

This is going to end well:pac: As a Tipp man I feel bad for the store owners and effected housing owners for the damage they suffer each time the Lee does burst it's banks. It's not their fault, more things should be put in place to prevent the severity of flooding not just in Cork but Ireland as a whole.

jamesbere

Divert the river all the way to Bantry Bay, that should solve the problem.

Dannyboy83

Tommy Dillon wrote: »

I think this is God trying to tell you something... maybe stop being a bunch of arrogant, whinging, jealous shower of langers. you will never be the capital and thats that

According to the IDA, Cork is already the industrial heart of Ireland.

http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2014/01/30/an-economic-renaissance-in-cork

According to the IDA, it is not Dublin that is the industrial heart of Ireland, but Cork.
In 2011, the south-west region accounted for 36.2pc, or €36.7bn, of Irish industrial output. Dublin as a region produced 18.9pc, or €19.2bn, worth of industrial gross output in 2011.
Dublin as a region had the lowest proportion of Irish-owned industrial units in 2011 at 14.5pc.
The south-west region, with a much, much smaller population, accounted for 15pc of Irish-owned industry.
The Cork region has the highest industrial wages in Ireland. This may come as a surprise to some but average industrial wages in the Cork region are €44,800, while the Dublin region is next highest at €44,700.

If we didn't have to subsidise Dublin;), we could afford to build a tidal barrier like this



Jokes aside tho, between flooding and Swiss Cheese-like roads throughout Cork, we'd all be better off investing in hovercraft.

gobnaitolunacy

Tommy Dillon wrote: »

I think this is God trying to tell you something... maybe stop being a bunch of arrogant, whinging, jealous shower of langers. you will never be the capital and thats that

Yeah, we'll just have the live with the fact Dublin is the real capital.






(and it's a nawful sh!thole of a capital)

mackerski

kippy wrote: »

Itd be easier to move the city.

Yeah, to Dublin. That's what most of rural Ireland seems to do anyway.

Ash.J.Williams

Will someone please think about the mullet

zetalambda

Where will all the norries wash themselves if we do that?

mordeith

Dannyboy83 wrote: »

According to the IDA, Cork is already the industrial heart of Ireland.



If we didn't have to subsidise Dublin;), we could afford to build a tidal barrier like this



Jokes aside tho, between flooding and Swiss Cheese-like roads throughout Cork, we'd all be better off investing in hovercraft.

That cost £500 million to build in the 1980s. Apparently it costs £16,000 to close it each time. I reckon even if they built one for the Lee they'd never use it!

Dannyboy83

mordeith wrote: »

That cost £500 million to build in the 1980s. Apparently it costs £16,000 to close it each time. I reckon even if they built one for the Lee they'd never use it!

That's certainly pricey, but Nash19 reckon the least 3 flood have cost them 90k alone and she laid off 20 staff today:

http://corkindependent.com/20140205/news/not-good-enough-2016-too-late-for-flood-works-S79430.html
That's not good enough, according to Ms Nash, who has experienced three major flood incidents in the past number of years, the most recent of which cost her approximately €90,000.

An emotional Ms Nash told the Cork Independent that yesterday she was forced to ask 20 of her 24 staff to sign on because she cannot reopen her restaurant due to health and safety concerns caused by floodwaters.

Businesses such as that might contribute toward the costs.

Dbu

Stick the river up on Donedeal and see what we get for it:D

Tommy Dillon

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Yeah, we'll just have the live with the fact Dublin is the real capital.






(and it's a nawful sh!thole of a capital)

Yup......but its still the capital..... doesnt say much about the rest of the country in fairness