Petition · past parliament

Reintroduce the dredging of rivers to reduce flooding risk...

Closed 305 signatures

What the petition asks

The EU directive effectively stopped rivers being dredged causing flash flooding because of the reduced capacity of rivers and their inability to contain run off. Now we are no longer at the behest of the EU we can reintroduce this effective means of flood control...

Timeline

22 Jul 2016 Petition opened for signatures
22 Jan 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 305
Status Closed
Opened 22 Jul 2016
Closed 22 Jan 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.