Nigel Pugh (he/him/they)

1/2. 40 mins between videos, the 1st video the waters were only on the Blackweir playing fields, the 2nd video creeping over the Pontcanna side playing fields. The waters weren’t at peak flow then #Cardiff. Pontypridd flooded again.

5 years I’ve been making the case for #NFM & #HedgesAndEdges. #Wales approx 80% plus farmland. The Sustainable Farming Scheme can begin to reduce peak flows for downstream community.

Fund Natural Water Management now & https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/agroforestry-in-wales/ #flood #climatechange

Agroforestry in Wales: Managing Our Landscape

Agroforestry is a win-win for sustainable farming and the environment

Woodland Trust
Nov 24, 2024 at 7:24pmWeb
Show threadNigel Pugh (he/him/they)Nov 24, 2024

2/2. 2nd video - 40 mins later, the water creeps over the entirety of Pontcanna fields.

You all know we are in a #ClimateEmergency - that extreme climate impact might not of touched you yet.

We all need slash governments climate emissions, and start delivering #nature based solutions at landscape scale.

Hugely sorry to anyone impacted by #stormBert

Show threadEpistatacadamNov 24, 2024
@nspugh I suspect we need to also change the drainage approach of urban areas as I wonder how much the taff gets impacted by the built up areas in the Cynon valley, and Upper Taff from Merthyr and points south. The upper flood plains are built on including the new mountain ash hospital on the flat land next to the river on the other side to the railway embankment....
Show threadNigel Pugh (he/him/they)Nov 24, 2024
@epistatacadam yes urban de-sealing, expose the earth, SuDs, trees, natural rain holding, gardens not paved concreted. Bare slopes and where water collects are key interventions.
Show threadBashStKidNov 24, 2024

@epistatacadam @nspugh Current planning regs for drainage on floodplains etc. are nonsensical.
First, there’s a bad formula for estimating the water volume displaced by the development (only volume, not rate, doesn’t take that into account)
Second, you can magically offset the losses in the development by proposing improvements elsewhere, doesn’t matter if they’re connected.

Very easy to tick the boxes and end up with dangerous nonsense.

Show threadEpistatacadamNov 24, 2024
@BashStKid @nspugh totally agree, almost as if bad builders interested in making a quick buck had drafted them, so honest safe builders wouldn't touch the flood plain, but the big boys.....
Show threadBashStKidNov 24, 2024
@epistatacadam @nspugh
Well, that’s not unusual, far too often senior folks in the regulators see it as a virtue to adopt ‘business-friendly’ leg drafted by the businesses with a bit of civil service pruning.
Show threadDavid ClubbNov 24, 2024
@nspugh thanks for sharing this
Show threadNigel Pugh (he/him/they)Nov 25, 2024
@davidoclubb and this wasn’t three storms in a row.
Show threadDavid ClubbNov 25, 2024
@nspugh saw some inspirational stuff going on in bannau Brycheiniog that needs to be replicated everywhere
Show threadNigel Pugh (he/him/they)Nov 25, 2024

@davidoclubb who is telling the empathetic, emotive, trusted story of that flood prevention activity - with meaningful reach?

There much to do, fund the SFS appropriately, and governments need to reign in corporate emissions, and reclaim their climate busting wealth - to pay https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/richest-1-emit-as-much-planet-heating-pollution-as-two-thirds-of-humanity-oxfam/

Oxfam GB | Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity – Oxfam

Oxfam GB