WORK to tackle flooding in the Park Road area of Rosyth is still to get under way.

Fife Council said it was one of five schemes they wanted to progress this year after a £5 million cash injection from the capital plan.

That's given them £500,000 a year for 10 years to try and deal with the tide of flooding records – 521 at the last count – they've received since the storms of August 2020.

Ken Gourlay, head of assets, transportation and environment, had previously told councillors that Park Road was "one of the areas that’s been a constant problem for us and it is a priority".

There's £120,000 allocated for flood works in that part of Rosyth in 2021-22 and a further £125,000 for 2022-23, when the project is due for completion.

It's not yet started while another scheme for this year, £50,000 for a solution at Lade Braes in Dalgety Bay, had been held up with local councillor Dave Dempsey blaming Scottish Water for being "awkward".

The remaining projects for 2021-22 are in Freuchie and Dysart. One to the east of Cupar has already been completed.

On the list of schemes for 2022-23 is £40,000 for a project in High Valleyfield, as well as £245,000 for Hill Street in Cowdenbeath and £90,000 for improvements in Kinglassie.

The council have also taken steps to prevent flooding through 'sediment management works' – removing silt – from various burns and waterways, including at Bath Street in Kelty.

Since the storms and severe flooding of August 2020, the council have been notified of 521 ‘flood records’ – with more coming in – and almost half, 258, are still to be investigated.

There are 144 ‘in hand’, another 116 under investigation and three where there is ‘no Fife Council solution’.

There are 15 flood records alone that relate to the Park Road area in Rosyth.

Among those still to be investigated are incidents in Aberdour, Cairneyhill, Carnock, Comrie, Culross, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline, High Valleyfield, Inverkeithing, Limekilns, Rosyth and Saline.

Councillors were told that investigations and mitigation work had been held up due to staff shortages.

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