Mark Hallam reports on latest flooding meeting with Council officials and local representatives
Following on from Steve Scofield’s update in last week’s E&L, a further flooding meeting took place on Monday 25th May at the Buccleuch Centre. Council officials, Councillor Male and local representatives attended.
Steve’s key message was confirmed — progress has been made, but much more still needs to be done.
The main concerns remain unchanged. Very little progress has been made on two critical issues:
- unblocking drains on the Hallpath road system, despite this being promised as far back as February, and
- carrying out a camera survey of drainage systems down to and beyond the A7. This survey requires coordination with BEAR, who hold important information from previous work.
We were told that Hallpath drain clearance should begin within the next two to six weeks. However, it was acknowledged that failure to complete this before the next storm season could have serious consequences.
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