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Flooding in Blackpool. Again.

evilivor

The village is underwater again it seems. Maybe the developers will finally have their wish and it will finally be killed off by this.

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pwurple

KCAccidental wrote: »

the money for the bike stands came from the NTA

Then take the giant wad of wasted cash off the NTA and give it to the councils.

Lucena

pwurple wrote: »

Then take the giant wad of wasted cash off the NTA and give it to the councils.

Whoa! Let's stop doing anything not related to flood alleviation!
:eek:

A_Sober_Paddy

It's what happens when you build on flood plains...pretty much a lot of cork are flood plains, so its inevitable that there going to flood...just another mistake of the boom

Grand Moff Tarkin

At least the Centra is up and running and did not have to shut for any length of time which is some good news.

funnights74

Grand Moff Tarkin wrote: »

This is what happens when you build a shopping center on a flood plain. Thanks again Clayton Love.

This is the same reason why Clonakilty has had so many floods in recent years. Developers built houses near a local flood plain blocking the exit of any heavy downfalls.
Ever since then they've been mopping up water on a regular basis.

professore

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

It's what happens when you build on flood plains...pretty much a lot of cork are flood plains, so its inevitable that there going to flood...just another mistake of the boom

That part of Blackpool has been developed for at least 150 years???? The old Jameson cottages are there - so unless you're referring to a boom in the 1800s the point isn't valid.

Grand Moff Tarkin

professore wrote: »

That part of Blackpool has been developed for at least 150 years???? The old Jameson cottages are there - so unless you're referring to a boom in the 1800s the point isn't valid.

I don't think the shopping center was built back in the 1800s and i can recall from my bush drinking days in the pole field that a bit of rain use to turn the place into a bog.

professore

Grand Moff Tarkin wrote: »

I don't think the shopping center was built back in the 1800s and i can recall from my bush drinking days in the pole field that a bit of rain use to turn the place into a bog.

No, but the flooding shown is on the Watercourse road? Nowhere near the shopping centre? [Edit] Just realised the clue is in the name ... Watercourse Road ....

professore

Blackpool was the scene of Industry in Cork in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this district, various attempts were made at various times to start or revive the manufacture of textiles such as broadcloth, blankets, flannels, hosiery, thread, braid and rope. The leather industry was also vibrant in Blackpool with no fewer than 46 tanyards at work there in 1837 giving employment to over 700 hands and tanning on average 110,000 hides annually.

From 1835 onwards tanners found it necessary to import hides from as far afield as Montevideo and Gibraltar in order to supplement local supplies.

Richard Griffith’s Evaluation of 1852 listed twenty-one tanneries in the Blackpool area. By the turn of the twentieth century only a handful of tanneries remained in production. The main tannery was Dunn’s on the Watercourse Road. One of the most extensive tanyards in Cork belonged to Daniel, fourth son of Jeremiah Murphy. This was located in Blackpool. The firm of Daniel Murphy & Sons was not affected by the decline, which ruined many tanning enterprises following the 1830’s. A partnership formed with the firm of Dunn Brothers maintained the business and the new firm became the largest tanning concern in the country at the time”. The Famine dealt the industry a very serious blow from which it never recovered. From that date onwards, the industry steadily declined.

Distilling became significant in the Cork region only during the last decades of the eighteenth century. Hewitt’s Watercourse Distillery was established in 1792 by Thomas Hewitt, John Teulon (both butter merchants) and Richard Blunt (a London distiller). By 1794 the production and sale of whiskey had begun.

In 1834 the Hewitt family took sole ownership of the distillery. The Hewitt family sold the distillery to the Cork Distillers Company in 1868. By 1876, distilling had ceased at the Watercourse Distillery, although the maltings, cornstores and warehouses were still used by the company.

Grand Moff Tarkin

professore wrote: »

No, but the flooding shown is on the Watercourse road? Nowhere near the shopping centre? [Edit] Just realised the clue is in the name ... Watercourse Road ....

The Pole(or tuckers)field use to absorb the rain and stop the water from making it's way down into the main Blackpool village the stream by the church never had to deal with the water levels it now has to deal with in the days before the shopping center was built. Also the Watercourse Road would be from the service station towards Murphys Brewery.

starch4ser

hoodwinked wrote: »

college road is said to be impassable...

Yeah, I heard Knocknaheeny is under 6 feet of water...

pwurple

Lucena wrote: »

Whoa! Let's stop doing anything not related to flood alleviation!
:eek:

Actually, shouldn't the NTA be dealing with this kind of flood prevention anyway? I mean, the culvert is built under the road.

Stop spending it on shiny bike racks and fix the flooding.