Highgate Ponds, City of London survey on dumb Dams Hampstead Heath http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PondsProjectYourViews public consultation Feb 17th @DamNonsense #damnonsense The City of London Corporation, which has responsibility for Hampstead Heath, is proposing to build new flood defences around the Heath Ponds to reduce the City’s alleged legal liability to nearby residents in the case of a “one in 400,000 year” storm and flood. Claiming that 1,400 people downstream of the Heath could drown in such a storm, the City plans to build embankments, better known as dams on or between some of the Heath ponds, the largest of which will be a new eight foot high dam on the Highgate Boating Pond and a new 18 foot high dam above the Hampstead Mixed Bathing Pond. Existing dams on other Highgate and Hampstead ponds will be heavily built up, and large overflow spillways (some of them 140 feet or more across) will be excavated. There is deep concern that the information used by the City of London ...