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Flooding by Asda-s proposed new supermarket

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-01-12 21:20:24 - Graham Ellis

It's been raining heavily over the last couple of days and, once again, the river has burst its banks to for what we call Lake Melksham. The corner by "Countrywide Farmers" is flooded yet again ...



This is the site where Asda have their planning application in to build a store - something I've written about in the past and will be writing about again, no doubt, in the future; I note with a wry smile at the moment that one of the boxes they did NOT tick on their application was that the area is free from flooding.

Just downriver, there were even two men in a boat ...