According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, councillor Richard Austin said: “One very disappointing aspect of the investigation is that it identified that the wall where the overtopping occurred was a serious area of risk.
“In fact, there was some serious cracking in that wall. That was identified in June, six months before the flood.”
In response, the IDB’s chief executive Daniel Withnall said the wall was inspected before winter and a bid was put in for repairs.
“We didn’t meet the timings to put that scheme on the bid list, if you like, for that year,” he told the meeting.
“We did put it in the following year and actually some money was spent last year to fill some of those cracks.”
Withnall added that the IDB was working to attract “further funding to Boston” in a bid to future-proof the area’s flood defences.