The Alconbury Brook Flood Group Report May 2022

The Flood Group has had a number of meetings with the Environment Agency (EA) and Jacobs to prepare for the public consultation meeting on June 14th.  The purpose of this public meeting is to get broad views on a range of options including ‘do nothing’ and ‘do minimum (status quo).

We have commented in detail on a number of proposals.

At the time of writing, we do not know which options will be presented but hope that our own preferred option will be included.

It is likely that other options from the unsuccessful 2005 and 2007 appraisal processes will be included to give the community a choice.

We have also walked from 1km downstream of the flyover to Holly Lodge with members of the EA Options Team pointing out opportunities and major obstacles within each option for example, damage to upstream or downstream businesses.

The public meeting will take place on June 14th at the Sports and Social Club between 2.00 and 7.30p.m. Please encourage people to attend.

The FG is about to send out a newsletter, and will also send out a public meeting reminder a few days before the 14th.

The FG held a successful AGM with about 40 people attending and nearly an hour of questions.

The Flood Group Charity also held its AGM.

The boat has finally been launched. Several members had a go during an enjoyable afternoon. We persuaded Mr Djonogly to have first go (in case of leaks). All survived the event and the boat will be in action soon.

A further phone meeting with the clerk of the course at Huntingdon Racecourse looked at issues of mutual interest.

More dead trees near Polecat Lane have been removed by volunteers.