Further supplementary memorandum submitted
by Sir Peter Tapsell MP (FL MP 14b)
Clearly, what is needed is greatly increased
capital investment to reduce the danger of inland flooding, particularly
near rivers, and a centralisation of responsibility which is at
present spread among too many organisations which, in the cases
of both Louth and Horncastle in my constituency, seem to have
had rather poor liaison between one another. Also, when I recently
visited the fire station in Louth, the Chief Fire Officer for
Lincolnshire told me that the fire brigade has no duty to act
where flooding is concerned and that they would have gone to help
in Louth earlier but had to wait to be asked to do so despite
the fact they had equipment for sucking water out of the river
to reduce its level.
Sir Peter Tapsell MP
October 2007
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