Environmental experts appointed to find natural solutions to Cork floods

Normally such projects identify farmlands that can be deliberately flooded to protect properties

Major flooding in Midleton, Cork in October last year. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

Two experts have been commissioned by Cork County Council to come up with ‘nature-based solutions’ to aid flood prevention projects planned in East Cork.

Professor Mary Bourke from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Paul Quinn, a senior research scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been appointed to look at adopting measures in the region similar to successful projects that have been undertaken in Britain.