White Cart River Flooding

Residents of white river in west honiara blame the poor drainage system in the area for serious flooding during the heavy rain last week and they are calling for the construction of a new system to fix the problem.

White cart river flooding.

It flows through much of the south side of the city. This will involve the formation of three flood storage areas upstream of the city to temporarily hold back the bulk of floodwater generated by extreme rainfall and control the release of water passing downstream through the city to an acceptable level. The last major flood was in 1984 when the white cart water again flooded over 500 properties. Glasgow city council promoted a flood prevention scheme for the white cart water and its tributary the auldhouse burn.

River flooding from the white cart water affected glasgow city in 1903 affecting over 500 properties. The white cart water has inflicted misery to residents and businesses in the south side of glasgow over many decades. The typical recent level of the white cart water at hawkhead over the past 12 months has been between 0 07m and 2 84m. Nine years later the 53m glasgow flood prevention scheme was inaugurated to stem the overflow of the white cart river and protect the 1750 homes and businesses that line the river protecting.

There is a long history of flooding in much of the area through which the white cart flows most notably in cathcart langside and shawlands. The principle behind the confirmed flood prevention scheme is one of catchment management. The usual range of the white cart water at hawkhead is between 0 10m and 3 03m. The river is prone to flash flooding.

The date is 30th december 2015 and the white cart river is close to breaking it s ban. The river cart scots. As little as twelve hours of rain can cause water levels to rise by six metres with the potential to turn the river into a raging torrent as it gathers momentum downstream towards the. River cairt is a tributary of the river clyde scotland which it joins from the west roughly midway between the towns of erskine and renfrew and opposite the town of clydebank.

After heavy rain overnight the river cart in paisley is in full flood. The river cart itself is very short being formed from the confluence of the black cart water from the west and the white cart water from the south east and is only 0 75 mile 1 km long. White river resident charles lesimaoma said the recent heavy rain caused flooding at the school clinic police post and playing ground in white river. After some 22 miles it joins the black cart near glasgow airport and then flows into the river clyde at renfrew.

It has been between these levels for 90 of the time since monitoring began.