Should someone be building Noah's Ark in SE22?

[Scylla100]

If it keeps raining we're not gonna flood here...are we? Anybody in the know?

Scylla

[LostThePlot]

Scylla100 Wrote:

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> If it keeps raining we're not gonna flood

> here...are we? Anybody in the know?

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> Scylla

Depends on which part of SE22 you are. I've produced a computer model to simulate different rainfall levels, and it seems that only Overhill road is safe.....

[char1ie]

Melbourne Grove has previously flooded. I have seen pictures of a music studio in the street that was destroyed by rising rainwater.

Charlie

[ruffers]

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/ if that's any help SE22 should basically be OK. Living up the hill on the Upper East Side I'm smugly confident though:)).

[SeanMacGabhann]

what ruffers said (even allowing for pride coming before a fall and all)

Us Upper East Siders have got the library, the Plough and Vals + a hardware store - if we get flooded up here then there is a bigger problem with the world than just SE22

(Although I also took the precaution of a first floor flat ;-) )

[macroban]

The lowest point in East Dulwich is the Grove Vale depression at about 57 feet above sea level.

Depressions collect water, but there is the storm drain.

[mockney piers]

It must have got blocked a couple of years back as there was a big flood (about 3-4 ft deep under the railway bridge) about 3 years ago, but a drop in the ocean (ho ho ho) compared to the floods in Riley, Sheffield, Tewkesbury et al.

[macroban]

The photos of the Grove Vale flash flood were fascinating - a good reason not to buy a flat at the Toilet Block.

But, I think the storm drain worked fine, otherwise the flooding would have backed up to the Goose Green roundabout. I suspect the Grove Vale depression street drains were blocked. Perhaps they had not been cleaned out regularly.

[mockney piers]

Very good point macroban and pretty much my first thought when I saw them being built.

Where can you find photos as I'd be quite interested to see them?

[TJS]

Where are these photos of grove vale - it would be very interesting to see