Environment

Once again, dog fouling has become a major problem on most of the footpaths and bridleways in and around the village, with the footpath to the south of the village, across the meadow, being in a...

Happy Easter everyone! We've come to the end of the 2023-2024 flood reporting season and what a year it has been with 1.5 times the seasonal average rainfall in the Autumn and high levels throughout...

Although we have had a few heavy outbreaks of rain during the week and some of it quite heavy, it hasn't been persistent which is a great blessing.  That, coupled with a rapidly advancing Spring...

Mid-march and the water levels remain high despite having relatively little rain compared with earlier in the winter and last autumn.  There has been a slow but steady fall in the water levels in...

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A pretty dry week compared to many we have had over the last few months.  Water levels in the Tilshead aquifer have pretty much stabilised, but if the drier weather continues, we might begin to see...

There has been a slow but steady rise in the level of water in the Tilshead borehole over the week.  This has been mirrored for much of the week by the river which has broken its banks in several...

What a week on the weather front, we've had over 50mm of rain in the village and more up on the Plain, so a sudden rise in the water level in both the aquifer and the River Till was pretty much...

Unfortunately, the rain on most days since the start of February began to reverse the nice downward trend in water levels in the aquifer and in the River Till.  Both are now rising and there has...

A period with quite a bit of moderate rainfall; just over 40mm for the week.   That has been enough to slow the rate of fall in the aquifer water levels, but not to reverse the direction of travel...