Midleton Flood Update: Climate Alarmists In Cork Council Responsible for Flood Relief Scheme Failure/shelving.
Members of the media, NGO and political class attempt to use a regional crisis for their own ends
The town of Midleton, Co Cork, has been subjected to a flash flood of likes you would normally see in a third world country, leading to a huge outpouring of support from all over the country. Immediately the arts degrees and eco-fascists were out in force, telling the residents of Midleton that the sky has fallen.
This coordinated hysteria is the result of an ever increasing reliance on hoax’s or wholesale exaggerations to drive policy. Entities like The Green Party and other career politicians like East cork Councillor Liam Quaide will point at every single body of water larger than a puddle as proof of rising sea levels. To all of their embarrassment, there exists an extremely well documented history of flooding in the town.
The Midleton with 1 ‘d’ blog is maintained by Tony Harpur, who is PAID by the local council to document the history of the town. In his blog on this history of flooding in Mideton he sets the record straight:
“One of the best early descriptions of flooding in Midleton is that from 1895: this flood happened on a Saturday night/Sunday morning and saw the Owenacurra River overflow its banks between Ballyedmond and Ballinacurra. ‘…all the low lying lands…are deeply flooded to a greater extent and depth than has been seen before by the oldest inhabitant.’ So severe was the flooding that the streets and sidewalks (the original word in the text) were ‘.…deeply submerged during the day causing much inconvenience to pedestrians going to and returning from their respective places of worship, many of them having to employ cars to convey them over the flooded portions of the town.‘
In 1911 another flood proved, perhaps, more devastating, because it happened on a Saturday, a busy market day: the flooding was caused by a massive thunderstorm lasting from about 10.30 am to about 3.30 pm accompanied by flashing lightning that terrified both the people of the town and draft animals.The worst of the storm happened between 12.00 noon and 1.30 pm. The deluge proved so bad that vehicular traffic had difficulty making its way through the town. The lower end of the Main Street was several inches deep in water and ‘…presented the appearance of initiating a lake.’ The lower part of Thomas Street was inundated to a depth of three feet and cellars on Main Street began to fill with water.The flash flooding of 1920 left many homes deluged and even threatened the lives of animals who had gone into the Owenacurra or Roxborough rivers. The depth of the flooding reach some five or six feet The lower part of Thomas Street was inundated to a depth of three feet, with seven or eight houses being abandoned as the inhabitants sought refuge elsewhere. The cellars on Main Street began to fill with water.
What is too frequently forgotten is that the centre of Midleton is a low lying area between two rivers – the Owenacurra on the west and the Roxborough / Dungourney River on the south. Although the land between these rivers is not entirely flat (indeed there is an outcrop of rock at one point) most of it is quite flat, but deceptive. Midleton is usually, but incompletely, described as being on the Owenacurra River, but the more dangerous river is almost certainly the Roxborough. This is the river that has flooded the lower end of Main Street frequently in recent years. The trouble with the Roxborough is that it is barely noticeable in the town – people just drive over Lewis Bridge to and from Main Street, not realizing that the river below the bridge is a strongly flowing stream that can flood very rapidly. The Roxborough is fed not only by its main stream coming from Dungourney but also by a watercourse coming from Loughaderra and Ballybutler in the east, near Castlemartyr.”.
As Mr. Tarpur demonstrates though his expert archiving preservation of the history of the town, this is expected for Midleton. What we have here is a ridiculous situation where elected councillors are contradicting the expert who they are paying to archive the records of Midleton’s past, which include detailed descriptions of historical floods. Mr. Tarpur is not alone. There numerous records of these floods occuring including in this Irish Examiner article:
The Flood of Corks Coast - 1962
"The Cork Examiner’s edition, Saturday, March 10, 1962, described the gruesome scene thus: “Human bones and pieces of coffins were floating around the cemeteries, while some of the graves were empty, the earth having been scooped up by the waves. Local residents found the corpse of a woman that had apparently been forced out of its coffin.”
"Midleton lay under several feet of water, as was, Carrigaline, Passage West and Glenbrook. The Beara Peninsula, Clonakilty, Kinsale and Cobh remained cut from the outside world until Thursday morning. Only for the outstanding efforts of council workers, army personnel, fire officers, Red Cross volunteers and coastal communities themselves; loss of life was avoided"
"A promise was given to carry out surveys, improve drainage and plan measures to counteract future severe weather events. One novel idea was that a type of air raid siren would blast out across Cork city to warn citizens of rising water levels. This seems like a derisory plan for a city suffering the consequences of a mini tidal wave."
The people of Middleton have suffered over a century of inaction. Climate change peddlers need to be ran out of town on this one. In my research for this article I discovered some absolutely infuriating information surrounding the Midleton Flood Relief Scheme which many of the current doomsday eco-councillors were tasked with fullfilling. I think you see where I am going with this.
The Midleton Flood Relief Scheme, which has till not updated it’s ‘news’ section to include this latest flood, has two pages under its project section on the official website for the scheme. The Background page and the Timeframe page. The former explains in full detail of how the council is completely aware of the problem and breaks down the root causes of the flooding and confirms all of the areas and water sources that need to be developed in order to provide effective flood relief. I want the reader to note at this point that climate change is not mentioned. The latter, called Timeframe, outlines an estimated calendar of works that will draw outrage and furore from the residents of Midleton and the wider concerned society alike.
“The Draft Catchment Flood Risk Management Plan was published in February 2010 and recommended the following for the Midleton sub-catchment:
Review feasibility of Fluvial Flood Forecasting System
Targeted Public Awareness and Education Campaign
Permanent Flood Walls and/or Embankments to manage both tidal and fluvial risk, along the Owenacurra River Estuary and along the Dungourney and Owenacura Rivers through Midleton”
Project Timeframe
The project will comprise five stages, as set out below (please note the timelines are the best estimate at the time of writing):
Stage 1 Development of a number of flood relief options and the identification of a preferred Scheme Complete by end of 2022
Stage 2 Public Exhibition of Scheme / Planning Process Commence in 2023
Stage 3 Detailed Design, Confirmation and Tender Commence in 2024
Stages 4 & 5 Construction and Handover of the Works Commence in 2025
The take away from these two pages is stark. The Middleton Flood Relief Scheme website states that from the time they published the report featuring the recommendations of works required, to the time that the first spade breaks the soil, is estimated to be 15 years. It took them 12 years alone to point at the report and say that they were going to do something with it. The locals and various versions of local authorities have known about the problem since the 19th century.
Read the following statements back to back a few times and meditate on the insanity of this level of delay.
”The Draft Catchment Flood Risk Management Plan was published in February 2010”
”Construction and Handover of the Works Commence in 2025”
These extracts from the MFRS become evidence of complicity in respect to East Cork Council members who failed to action the recommendations made in the The Draft Catchment Flood Risk Management Plan. This plan clearly shows that the works should have been completed by 2014-2015. Before that for over a hundred years and, since that date, there has been seasonal floods almost every year. The knowledge of this has been in the lap of these FFG/Sustainable Development Goals driven politicians since 2010 via a professionally developed report. None of these people have actioned the report and neither have the previous two rosters of East Cork Councillors. This means that there are at least three elections worth of local governments who have taken a salary and a pension from the general public, in particular the people of East Cork, and have rode off into the sunset.
Every one of these councillors are obsessed with climate change and have actually attempted to blame this gross malfeasance on you for having an open fire, a cow that farts and a motorised vehicle. Due to the claim that this is a climate change caused incident, these councillors who had it in their power to implement a 13 year old report but didn’t, have opened themselves up to a conflict of interest claim here involving the property damage of an entire town. If I was a resident of the town of Midleton or a business owner etc. I would be gathering as many of ye together as I could and I would take all sitting members of East Cork Council to court.
It is still not clear whether there is any direct or indirect loss of life.
This is either an intentional failure to act in order to use the suffering and loss of Midletonians to push the climate change narrative ( Eco-Terrorism ), or it was criminal malfeasance and these creatures are using climate alarmism to cover their tracks.
This needs a full criminal investigation followed by sweeping claims against these people sitting on East Cork Council:
Cllr Ann Marie Ahern
“there are children still stuck in the educate together school”
annmarie.ahern@cllr.corkcoco.ie
087 2425650
East Cork
Fianna Fáil
Cllr John Healy
East Cork
Non-Party
Cllr Michael Hegarty
Michael.Hegarty@cllr.corkcoco.ie
086 8115150
East Cork
Fine Gael
Cllr Mary Linehan-Foley
“Decision day If you want better public services in #CorkEast... If you want a change from the same old boys club... If you want someone to work on behalf of our health care professionals, gardaí and educators... If you want a strong Independent woman... Vote #1 Mary Linehan Foley” - 2020
Mary.LinehanFoley@cllr.corkcoco.ie
086 8237905
East Cork
Non-Party
Cllr Susan McCarthy
“the Office of Public Works “needs to pull the finger out” and implement the flood-relief scheme that the east Cork town has been awaiting since 2015. “People are genuinely very, very angry,"
cllrsusanmccarthy@gmail.com
087 2240377
East Cork
Fine Gael
Cllr Liam Quaide
“Climate change is here. Absolutely vital that we double down on mitigation & adaptation.”
Liam.Quaide@cllr.corkcoco.ie
087 7720367
East Cork
Green Party
Cllr Danielle Twomey
Danielle.Twomey@cllr.corkcoco.ie
083 1654606
East Cork
Sinn Fein
Great Job...I'd say that you could be a journalist only that would be an insult! :)