
Wet behind the ears: how to stop the flooding
I have yet to see anyone explain how the recent floods can be tackled technically. The Governemnt’s Eric Pickles laments, “We perhaps relied too much on the Environment Agency’s advice.…we thought we were dealing with experts.” But how expert do you actually need to be to deal with a flood problem? To find out, we gave our 1st year civil engineering students at UCL the task of solving a typical river flood. We took the Cornish seaside village of Mevagissey […]
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