I REFER to the article 'Flood Warning' (Evening Press, September 17).

All those who suffered the devastating effects of the floods do not need to be lectured to by the Environment Agency. Nor do we need the agency to play with pretty graphs and computers to tell us that we are about to have our houses and possessions ruined by flood water.

What we do require out of the taxes and rates we pay is for the Environment Agency to snap out of their self-appreciating complacency and alleviate the incidence of high flooding we suffered last year.

Whilst we have been repairing our homes they who are responsible for the river and flood control have done little or nothing to prevent a re-occurrence of the flooding again this year.

R S Scruton,

Palmes Close,

Naburn, York.

Updated: 10:19 Monday, September 24, 2001