Solutions following the Carlisle Floods

1. Management
Post Carlisle Floods
Three different Strategies

2. Strategies considered here
• Flood Storage at Holme Head [Denton
Holme
• Building floodwalls atop existing
embankments [Carlisle United]
• Flood plain maximisation on the Peterill

3. Holme Head Storage Scheme
The new
bridge at the
lower end of
an extended
flood plain
storage
scheme

4. Work underway
Note the new river wall beside the builder

6. The new river wall
downstream from the
storage area

7. The new sewer
Passing behind St Aidans school the new sewer will replace a ft diameter pipe

9. Flood Gate and bank extension
Carlisle United

10. Gate Detail

11. Bank protecting
stadium and
wall protecting
housing

12. Do you think this is sufficient protection?

13. Peterill Bridge

14. The path up and over the realigned embankment and down into the wider flood plain
Below monitoring station [already grafittied] and drainage culvert

15. Line of the river
Original left bank [East]
Down stream of the
bridge flood walls
exist on both sides
– gate is closed

16. New Sewer Carlisle United
Peterill Bridge
and the widened
Flood Plain

17. Creative Commons
• Photographs + text - Mark Ollis [Jan 09]
• St Bees School, Cumbria
• www.aberrantbee.com