Our group should have its busier year ever and we are kickstarting it with an evening meeting, on Tuesday 20th January, with a presentation on the elusive Water Framework Directive application in UK by Malcolm Newson, Tyne Rivers Trust Director.
Paul and I will also attend a Newcastle Great Park Advisory Committee meeting on the 19th, where we will have a chance to present our ideas to this group.
Finally, we will write in the next 7 weeks the OCSG action plan for the Ouseburn. We will send our first draft to all our members for comments and suggestions. I will give more details during our next meeting.
Sebastien
PS: I attended the public meeting on the September 2008 flooding in the Ouseburn in Brunton Park before Christmas. St Aidan's church was packed and Newcastle City Council, Environment Agency and Northumbrian Water presented their views on the flood events and their response to it. Some members of the audience were irate as they thought they were hearing the same thing again and again. Nonetheless, John Shipley reiterated that these three agencies will carry on working together to solve the current flooding issues in the upper Ouseburn for the years to come.
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