High winter river levels at Howe Bridge, near Malton
Flood defences in Newtondale above Pickering. Rather than build a £20 million concrete wall to protect the town centre, Pickering council elected to build 167 leaky dams of logs and branches – which let normal flows through but restrict and slow down high ones . They added 187 lesser obstructions made of bales of heather and fulfilling the same purpose in smaller drains and gullies; and planted 29 hectares of woodland. They built a bund, to store up to 120,000 cubic metres of floodwater, releasing it slowly
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Location: Howe Bridge, Malton, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Richard Burdon / Alamy / Afripics
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