It seems to me, there's plenty of "dredging" going on amongst ALL parties concerned with this issue ... in the sense that, each of them is "scraping the bottom of the barrel" - looking for excuses to apportion blame to the other(s) - when, truth be told, the excessive flooding has most likely arisen from the consequences of extreme climatic changes affecting the lowest lying, predominantly flat areas - a "natural phenomenon", previously unheard of (in these parts) in living memory.