IN the wake of the recent flooding, I want to know when are those responsible for drainage going to realise the answer is not to build up the river banks but to drop the river beds?

I am old enough to remember that they were dredged on a regular basis and I dread to think how much silt has built up since dredging was last carried out.

Carried to the extreme, there could eventually come a time when the river beds are actually at land level.

Land that is not actually flooded is absolutely waterlogged because it cannot get over the high banks and back into the river.

Don't try and tell us that to dredge would be too expensive.

Nothing could be more expensive both in money terms and human misery, than the present situation.

Mrs J Bramley,

South Duffield, Selby.