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04/12/2007 at 12:46
I live in Didcot (I know :rolleyes. Just interested in its chances of flooding. I have no idea of its height in relation to surrounding countryside / rivers etc.

How can I find out? (for free, on the web!)
TooFamousRob
04/12/2007 at 12:47
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Dodgy Geezer
04/12/2007 at 12:48
Environment Agency website, stick yer postcode in
PG
04/12/2007 at 12:49
Some info here www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/?lang=_e

Enter postcode for flood risk map etc.
PG
04/12/2007 at 12:49
CoolHands wrote
I live in Didcot (I know :rolleyes. Just interested in its chances of flooding. I have no idea of its height in relation to surrounding countryside / rivers etc.

How can I find out? (for free, on the web!)

When you stand in your lounge, are your feet wet?
McSatan
04/12/2007 at 12:52
I work very near Didcot (Milton) and Didcot itself didn't flood badly earlier this year, there were a few very deep puddles that you wouldn't want to drive through, but I don't know of any houses getting flooded out. I'm sure one of the local inbreds will be along in a minute to tell me that I'm wrong.
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The Turd
04/12/2007 at 12:53
orangesocks wrote
When you stand in your lounge, are your feet wet?


You would of course have to wait until it rained a great deal first!
fastboy
04/12/2007 at 12:53
If you're about to buy a place, it will show up on the local searches as well if your house is deemed to be in a zone liable to flooding.
04/12/2007 at 12:58
The Turd wrote
You would of course have to wait until it rained a great deal first!

Not if you left the hose pipe on. der
GiantPygmy
04/12/2007 at 12:59
CoolHands wrote
I live in Didcot (I know :rolleyes. Just interested in its chances of flooding. I have no idea of its height in relation to surrounding countryside / rivers etc.

How can I find out? (for free, on the web!)


Look out the window
byker28i
04/12/2007 at 13:01
I like the environment agency website. They identified that the brook at the bottom of our road is likely to flood (it's at the bottom of a 12 feet deep cutting) so they've been along lately with diggers and cleaned it all up, reinforced the banking.

I can't really see that it would have, being a small tributory, and it's never risen more than a foot in it's life.

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04/12/2007 at 13:01
CoolHands wrote
I live in Didcot (I know :rolleyes. Just interested in its chances of flooding. I have no idea of its height in relation to surrounding countryside / rivers etc.

How can I find out? (for free, on the web!)

Not a barge is it. Are you a canal pikey?
The Turd
04/12/2007 at 13:01
orangesocks wrote
Not if you left the hose pipe on. der


So lets get this right....

The way you would check to see if your house was on a flood plain would be to turn the hose on and to see if you got wet feet while standing in your lounge.

Sound advice!
X81
04/12/2007 at 13:03
PG wrote
Some info here www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/?lang=_e

Enter postcode for flood risk map etc.


just clicked that link and it shows my area as being at risk of severe flooding from rain or sea without sea defences.......well duh isn't most of the UK at risk of being flooded if the sea rises enough

oddly enough though considering that i do live in the middle of the fens which is flatter than a flat thing we suffered no flooding what so ever earlier in the year when the freak storms came.............how strange

Mr nobody

04/12/2007 at 13:04
The Turd wrote
So lets get this right....

The way you would check to see if your house was on a flood plain would be to turn the hose on and to see if you got wet feet while standing in your lounge.

Sound advice!

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TheEnglishman
04/12/2007 at 13:11
byker28i wrote
....it's never risen more than a foot in it's life.
....



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londongal76
04/12/2007 at 13:29
I'd be more worried about the AWE site than the floods!
MyLittleStudPony
04/12/2007 at 13:33
X81 wrote
just clicked that link and it shows my area as being at risk of severe flooding from rain or sea without sea defences.......well duh isn't most of the UK at risk of being flooded if the sea rises enough

oddly enough though considering that i do live in the middle of the fens which is flatter than a flat thing we suffered no flooding what so ever earlier in the year when the freak storms came.............how strange


I think the fens has excellent drainage (dykes, drainage engines etc etc) so they're ok in heavy rain.

But if the sea level rises....
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go_slow
04/12/2007 at 13:52
MyLittleStudPony wrote
(dykes,


You cant say that anymore, you have to call them women in comfortable shoes.
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feralfish
04/12/2007 at 14:03
londongal76 wrote
I'd be more worried about the AWE site than the floods!


Tis the combination you should fear, some years back the main site got flooded and contaminated the office building down the hill with manky water. Very expensive to sort out, according to local rumour.
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