Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury park floods - photos
Well I'm just lucky to be alive... just swam into work having survived the terrifying FLOODS OF FINSBURY!!!
Access to FP tube was partially shut off due to flooding this morning (you could still get trains but it was overcrowded), the road was flooded at Blackstock Road/Seven Sisters outside Lidl and you couldn't walk on the pavement by the road without getting a dirty shower of water by the cars bombing past. There's a flowing stream in the park where there isn't supposed to be one - on the grass - and the water's bubbling up from underneath the manhole cover.
I'm just off to light a candle and give thanks for my deliverance!
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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Oh my! You must have been terrified. I'd go and lie in a darkened (6th floor) room if I were you! Seriously, is it really bad in the actual park?
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Permalink Reply by Sophie Smith on
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Well the grass is seriously soggy! there's a proper stream developed in the grass, I didn't actually go into the park but I wouldn't schedule any football matches in there for a while.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Sophie I regularly walk through FP and reguarly, the drain at the southern end stops working after a period of rain. Then of course, a large inconvenient pond develops.
This has happened so many times and its so predictable, that one wonders why a permanent fix isn't done by the council. For practical work, so often "there's no money in the budget for that"
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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One of the benefits of large areas of open space is to soak-up, hold-back and 'store' excess water when the local system (including storm drains) can't cope with the intensity or volume of rainfall. That's why housing infill and the use of non-permeable surfacing poses a serious problem.
'Fixing' "a large inconvenient pond" in a park is possible - probably with storage either above or below ground. So, yes, it costs money. But flooded homes and businesses cost a lot more.
It's also possible that the reason a particular drain or set of drains "stops working after a period of rain" is because it's full of water. At which point it overflows and delivers water from higher ground.
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The drain at the south end of FP is clearly blocked, but I'm not sure its blocked by water. There's been a pond there for several days now, gradually increasing. Amongst other things, its also on an important cycle route.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Bit of a precedent for this.
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Have now done so.
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I defer to your local knowledge Anne.
Do you know if anyone has actually been down - or used a camera - to take a look at the problem? Do you remember to whom the reports were sent?
I was speculating - and it's nothing more than that - on whether debris washed away after the Tottenham riot may be linked to blocked drain gullies in the High Road.
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Permalink Reply by William Booth on
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Drivers were being right a-holes. Speeding up and coming right over to the gutter to get people. Grrrrr.
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Permalink Reply by Nick Hare on
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On that subject, I have to walk along Green Lanes to Turnpike Lane in the morning alongside Duckett's Common. Always getting splashed by buses, white vans etc. It seems like it would be a good idea to put a gate into Duckett's Common on the corner of Green Lanes and Frobisher Road, then have a path running inside the park to join up with the path that starts about half-way along. Is there a good reason this has never been done, e.g. to contain dogs or because of an ancient burial ground?
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