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Flooding in Drumbeg

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Flooding at the Drum Bridge

As part of this story the wider context of Drumbeg itself is important. Everything is fine for more development according to planners at Lisburn Castlereagh Planning Department, for more destruction of natural soakaways and decimation of natural habitats that do so much for our environment not least drinking water

and in the meantime these things are happening yearly – these are not one in one hundred year events and they get worse.

HOW MUCH WATER DOES A TREE DRINK? A healthy 100-foot-tall tree has about 200,000 leaves. A tree this size can take 11,000 gallons of water from the soil and release it into the air again, as oxygen and water vapor, in a single growing season.

So Why Are We destroying Them?
Flooding at the Drum Bridge
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Quarterlands laminated leaflets holding up in the surge
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Flooding at the Drum Bridge Drumbeg
Quarterlands
Quarterlands

We live in Lagan Valley Regional Park, in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we genuinely fear that we will lose what makes this such a lovely place to live if we don’t challenge.