Water and Flood Protection
Key Issues
Water is essential for life and an increasingly precious resource. We must learn how to use it wisely, conserve it and take steps to ensure that there are adequate future supplies for all. We also need water to be clean, which means encouraging a clean water mind-set to assist long term health. Part of this means doing what we can to discourage any kind of water pollution which can have disastrous effects in and around our rivers and on life itself.
At the same time, and with more extreme weather now a regular feature of life, we need to be vigilant in mitigating the worst effects of flooding, both in built-up areas and in preserving our floodplains as essential parts of overall flood management. In all this we also want to support our local charitable organisations:
- the River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT)
- the Cuttle Brook Conservation Volunteers (CBCV)
who are helping to ensure these principles apply to Thame’s greatest natural water assets, The River Thame, the Cuttle Brook and Kingsey Cuttle Brook.
2.1 Understanding that domestic water supplies are a precious resource
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Action: Organise water awareness events in Thame and local schools
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Action: Share successful methods for reduction of home water usage
2.2 Flood control and drainage & Avoiding water pollution
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Action: Awareness and information to help individuals make the right choices when making changes to driveways, paths and patios
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Action: Awareness and information to help individuals make good choices for patio and garden water storage
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Action: Maintain campaigns that ‘only rain goes down the drain’ and promote responsible disposal of harmful products.
2.3 Understanding why clean rivers and streams are an important natural resource
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Action: Elevate conservation profiles – of the River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT) and Cuttle Brook Conservation Volunteers (CBCV) and general links with biodiversity parties by
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Action: Neighbourhood Plan…
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Action: Liaise with SODC…
2.4 Clean Water
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Action: Discuss options with Thame Town council and Thames Water…
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Action: Help increase community awareness of the need for effective and ongoing flood management.
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Encourage support from local landowners in cutting back on agricultural chemicals to reduce polluting run-off and improve water quality.
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Action: Press for scrutiny of planning applications and on-site follow up to ensure compliance.
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Action: Support better construction methods to mitigate risks of run-off flooding from driveways, paths, patios etc.
2.5 Links to our natural water sources
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Action: Ongoing reminders and awareness