Ross-on-Wye

The Flood Alleviation Scheme Work 2007

Current works

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10^th November '07

The Sluice at Brookend

The Fiveways to Broadmeadows culvert
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The new culvert from Fiveways towards Broadmeadows has now been covered back over. Works are now starting further over up on the Railway embankment.

Homs Road and Rope Walk area

The new upper channel
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The stream channel has been cutout to allow the flood water to flow away more easily. The soil from the digging has been used to form a bank along the side of the road.

The new channel from the Trenchard Street end
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Flood alleviation work 2008

¹ The brook referred to as the Chatterley Brook is actually a unnamed brook that flows from Weston-under-Penyard past Chackley Grove. It has only recently become referred to as the Chatterley Brook and locally it was previously known as Chackley Brook.