RE: NORMAN Eades’ letter about the proposed plans to tart up the Bridge Street area of Andover as if it was a backdrop to a film set film set (Letters, August 31).

Okay, that’s perhaps a bit unkind, but as Norman Eades points out, the general public don’t always behave as if they had a script to follow.

People dynamics aside, both TVBC and HCC staff are somewhat secretive regarding the inevitable change of flow dynamics of the River Anton. Luckily thanks to the US Army Corps of Engineers we can get a lot more data and understand the dynamics of river flow, see:- publications.usace.army.mil/ Portals/76/Publications/EngineerManuals/EM_1110-2-14 16.pdf ?v er=2013-09-04-070758-670.

I think pages 610-614. are relevant. There is other enlightening information on YouTube on the subject — look up ‘open channel flow’.

Yes, it’s complicated, with calculus, Froude, and Reynolds numbers, but most of the general public can grasp some understanding, but we are patronised by local government, and whether a holder of a Ph.D, or an O-level we are assumed by TVBC and HCC to have intellects of the ignorant natives who can be bought with coloured beads, which is tantamount what the pretty pictures of the landscaping of Bridge Street are.

Certainly mother nature cannot be policed, I recall the imagery published in the Andover Advertiser in 2014, showing the flooded River Anton almost flowing over the top of the bridge in Bridge Street. We are told that we must expect more extreme weather. Surely money spent on flood mitigation may be more important. I have actually pointed this out but, the people behind this project ignore anything other than what they want to hear.

Roderick Pond, St Birstan Gardens, Andover.