Environment

Yet another largely dry week and, just for the record, the wet stuff in the air at the moment doesn't seem to qualify as rain, drizzle or any other form of precipitation on quite a few popular...

As we approach the end of January 2024 and the halfway point in this winter's flood season, the news on the aquifer, the river and the weather front continues to be encouraging.  Over the last 3...

No significant rain for 15 days has meant that the water levels in the River Till and the Tilshead aquifer have begun to fall.  As a consequence, the Environment Agency has removed the Flood Warning...

Apologies for being a day late on the normal schedule.  Travelling up to the north of England and seeing the level of flooding close to places like Tewksbury and Worcester was quite staggering; as...

The rainfall predicted last week arrived as expected and the impact on the catchment, the Tilshead borehole and the River Till was as unpredictable as ever.  Last Sunday the levels in the borehole...

The final day of 2023.  After falling steadily, but very slowly all week, and despite what has seemed to be an awful lot of rain, the water level in the aquifer bottomed out yesterday at 98.79...

The good news this week is that whilst there has been some rainfall during the week, the amounts were less than half those forecast.  As a consequence, the rate at which the aquifer has been...

The rate of rise in the Tilshead borehole groundwater level accelerated at the start of the week, following the heavy rain two weeks ago.  This rate of rise is just starting to show signs that it...

Another week with several rainy days and of course the water level in the Tilshead borehole rose much as anticipated.  The rate of rise was slow at first as the rain soaked into the dryish ground,...

Today is the first day of meteorological winter and that was the original reason for starting to record flood data from December 1st for the Tilshead borehole and its impact on the River Till.  The...