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Highgate Ponds will be ruined by proposed flood defenses @CityCorpHeath @DamNonsense

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Highgate Ponds will be ruined by proposed flood defenses @CityCorpHeath @DamNonsense  City of London Corporation, which has responsibility for Hampstead Heath, is proposing to build new flood defences around the Heath Ponds
http://www.damnonsense.org.uk/

@DamNonsense Whats going to happen to our ponds?
The City of London Corporation, which has responsibility for Hampstead Heath, is proposing to build new flood defences around the Heath Ponds
http://www.damnonsense.org.uk/ www.damnonsense.org.uk

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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 on their questionnaire and consultation, on their proposed works to build huge new dams on the Heath Ponds, is misleading.
These 2 information leaflets, here  and  here have been prepared, giving other vital information that has been left out. 

It is hoped that this will help provide greater balance and be of assistance in answering the City's questionnaire. 

Which view would you prefer? 

This? (showing the current view of the boating pond from the path) 

Or this? (showing the splendid vista which will be visible once the embankment is built!) 


This is a photo of the path running past the Model Boating Pond with marker posts put in by the City Management to give a rough idea of the height of the proposed new dam

The picture below has been mocked up from those posts to give a rough idea of how such a dam might look to the passer-by

More “before” and “after” pictures can be found in the pictures section of this website

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