Environment

This Autumn is turning into quite an exceptional one on the weather front and this is reflected in the water level in the Tilshead borehole.  It was hoped that we might get to the 1st of December...

We've been monitoring the water levels in the Tilshead borehole during winter over the last decade, and it has proved to be an excellent indicator of when the village might be prone to groundwater...

Welcome to the last flood bulletin of the 2022-2023 season.  I've barely been in the village for the last month for a couple of reasons, but I have been monitoring things daily, just in case there...

Once again, my apologies for not producing a bulletin for the last few weeks, but I have been away with other things on my mind, so today is a bit of a catch-up.  With very little rainfall during...

During the week, the Flood Alert for groundwater flooding in the vicinity of the River Till was lifted by the Environment Agency, but once again, they failed to notify that that had happened.  There...

The graph this week will be a great relief to some in the village, as it shows the trend in water level continues to be downwards.  Indeed, the rate of drop has increased nearly 10-fold since last...

A shade under two months to go to the end of my annual monitoring period and the good news continues.  Another week without any significant rainfall means the water levels in the Rive Till have...

Thankfully, a week without any real rain; we did have 0.1mm of rain in the middle of the week.  Consequently, levels in the River Till have continued to fall and Water Lane/Dryden Street no longer...

Another week goes by and things have got interesting/puzzling.  Back on Thursday 12th 2023, the Environment Agency, or at least it's automated warning system (real live staff are engaged in...

"Don't Panic!" remains the theme of this week's flood watch; at least not yet.  I realise that over the last decade, and particularly over the last year or so, we've had quite a turn round of...