Flood defences go down a storm

Friday 28th May 2010, 1:15PM BST.

Barriers outside Mark Le Page’s house have been commissioned to stop traffic using La Biloterie Road as a shortcut during storm-force conditions. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0976780)

PERELLE and La Biloterie Road residents are praying that new flood defence barriers will work.

The Public Services Department yesterday tested out the new custom-built barriers, which will be put up when there is a combination of high tides and strong winds.

The defences have been designed to deflect water that has spilled over the sea wall and will be kept in secure boxes near the roads.

They will aid a new drainage system that was installed in March last year.

It had been hoped that the new drainage system would solve the problem of flooding to properties, but in early April this year residents experienced similar problems.

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naseby

May 28, 2010 at 2:29 pm

I lived in Biloterie rd back in the late seventies and conditions were bad back then, why has it taken so long?. Ironically the worst flooding I experienced at that time came from torrential rain, the dam overflowed, and blocked douits and drains caused serious flooding to fields and property.

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