General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I will repeat that has well as the dam being constructed, the level of the river bank in the Newtown area has been raised considerably during the last few years, to help alleviate the flooding problems caused there and the when Wallgate used to flood under the Seven Tars railway bridge, it was caused by the water coming up through the drains, because the drains carried rainwater away from Wallgate and emptied it into the River Douglas, so when the river was 'in flood' and the river reached a certain level, the drains would reverse flow and the water would come up through the grids and flood into Wallgate and that would be the case until the river level went down to below the level of Wallgate under the railway bridge ...