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.

After heavy rain overnight the river cart in paisley is in full flood. 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. 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.

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. It has been between these levels for at least 150 days in the past year. The river is prone to flash flooding. White river resident charles lesimaoma said the recent heavy rain caused flooding at the school clinic police post and playing ground in white river.

River flooding from the white cart water affected glasgow city in 1903 affecting over 500 properties. The last major flood was in 1984 when the white cart water again flooded over 500 properties. It flows through much of the south side of the city. In 1994 the river burst its banks once more in various places including paisley and in 1999 families living in cathcart and langside suffered thousands of pounds of damage when the water reached waist height in their homes.

It has been between these levels for 90 of the time since monitoring began. 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. The principle behind the confirmed flood prevention scheme is one of catchment management. Glasgow city council promoted a flood prevention scheme for the white cart water and its tributary the auldhouse burn.

The typical recent level of the white cart water at hawkhead over the past 12 months has been between 0 07m and 2 84m. After some 22 miles it joins the black cart near glasgow airport and then flows into the river clyde at renfrew. The usual range of the white cart water at hawkhead is between 0 10m and 3 03m. Between the 10 12 december 1994 major flooding occurred in rivers and urban watercourses across the glasgow and its surrounding areas.

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.