Long-term savings
LOOKING at the e-mails sent to the Environment Agency when it was consultation time on the flood strategy, nothing was considered, even though common sense tells us that the upper reaches of the Arun are connected to the incoming tides.
The excuse is that to erect a barrier at the mouth of the river (like the Thames but not so complex) is expensive.
The £10m that is going to be the present cost of lifting the height of the banks as far as the A259 would be better spent on saving the Arun valley for the next 100 years by building a barrier that would stop the highest of tides from flooding everywhere.
Ray Lee
Saxon Close, East Preston