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Closed petition Reintroduce the dredging of rivers to reduce flooding risk...

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The EU directive effectively stopped rivers being dredged causing flash flooding because of the reduced capacity of rivers and their inability to contain run off. Now we are no longer at the behest of the EU we can reintroduce this effective means of flood control...

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