[Archive post transferred: original date 21 May 2004]
Earlier this month I was fortunate to be given a tour of the new Jubilee Relief Channel by Alan Butterworth of the Environment Agency (EA). This has been designed to alleviate flooding on the river Thames around Windsor, Bray and Maidenhead. I know that there has been some controversy about the effect it has had on places downstream such as Chertsey during last year’s floods, but this has been discussed elsewhere by those more knowledgeable than me. I was impressed by the eco-friendly design of this waterway, it could so easily been a featureless concrete canal but it has been built to accommodate both the public and the environment and seems for that reason to be worth every penny that was spent on it. The land it was built on is in the process of being returned to the original owners and it is hoped that they and nature will see to the stocking of fish.
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