By cuckooshoe yesterday:
There are warnings of thunderstorms in parts of Scotland today.
Although there have been no thunderstorms in Glasgow’s South Side, there have been several heavy downpours.
Only in June STV and BBC Scotland jinxed Scotland’s summer by warning their viewers of severe water shortages.
The heavy downpours today reminded me of flooding in parts of the South Side in the past.
The reason why it is in the past is because of this achievement.
https://www.mgsdp.org/index.aspx?articleid=21107
Scottish Water’s flagship Shieldhall Tunnel project, in the south of Glasgow, is the biggest waste water tunnel ever to be built in Scotland.
The £100m tunnel, which enables Scottish Water to improve water quality in the River Clyde and reduce flooding issues at key locations, is, at 3.1 miles long, five times longer than the Clyde Tunnel.
The tunnel was constructed using a specially designed, 1000 tonne, 180-metre-long, tunnel boring machine, and at 4.7 metres in diameter is big enough to fit a double decker bus inside
Tunnelling started in July 2016 and was completed in early spring 2018. The project was formally completed and operational in July 2018.
The tunnel route was carefully selected to minimise disruption, and runs from Craigton Industrial Estate, under the Glasgow Paisley Canal railway line and the M77, under Bellahouston Park, Pollok Park, along Titwood Road to Queen’s Park where a newly-installed flume connects the tunnel to the existing sewer network.”
And in Labour Wales?
Professor Sarah Lindley and colleagues at Manchester University have carried out research for Friends of the Earth to map which communities in Wales are vulnerable to flooding – and which of these are most socially vulnerable due to their demographics (e.g., age, income, disability, etc).
The research identified 129 socially vulnerable neighbourhoods in Wales at risk of flooding and likely to be without flood defences. 26 of these are in Swansea, 24 in Cardiff, and 17 In Newport. The remaining neighbourhoods are spread across 18 local authority areas. There are 26,112 people in these neighbourhoods potentially at risk according to the researchers.
https://policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/insight/flooding-wales-getting-worse
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Meanwhile here in Montrose the erosion continues apace, the CREW report for the ScotsGov fails to mention, the creation of a deep water port and the 50 years of maintenance dredging to keep it open.
How can the report be trusted, with the herd of elephants standing on the Montrose beach ignored?
Click to access _DC2_WS4_Montrose_FINAL.pdf
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This is an interesting video Alex 👍
The Crown Estate was devolved in 2016, and the Scottish Government passed s Crown Estate Act in 2018. Presumably because of this it is now able to manage Scotland’s coasts and deal with the issue in this case. However, the video clearly demonstrates a link between the erosion at Montrose and the oil boom. Does the decommissioning of North Sea oil rigs include the restoration of the environment? Sand is used for making concrete and the dredging of sand off Montrose occurred during the oil boom. It has left the people of Montrose with a terrible legacy and the town, the Local Authority and Scotland are left to pick up the costs. Do the UK government, the construction industry, and the oil companies also bear responsibility for the restoration of the Montrose foreshore?
http://www.vysusgroup.com/articles/decommissioning-whos-liable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46277411
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As a retired Loss Adjuster I recall the flooding which used to occur in South Glasgow. I’m sure the residents and their Insurers are grateful for the £100m expenditure and consequent savings in claim costs and, hopefully for residents, reduced premiums (though any savings will have been absorbed by other cost increases by now).
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