Flood Alert Information

A very odd week indeed.  As predicted last Friday, with spring well under-way, trees coming into bud, grass growing, and very little rain, the water level in the Tilshead borehole continued to fall...

Apologies for the late publication of this weeks flood report, I've been away in the north.   Well, whilst I've been away spring has well and truly sprung and despite having one day already this...

Only one month remaining of this year's monitoring period and water levels are more than 5m below the 4 year average.  During February, we had 45mm of rain which is about the same levels we had back...

The rise in the water level at the Tilshead borehole has continued during the week, despite there being only 4.3mm of rain during the period.  The rate of increase has tailed off though. We...

Despite only having 3.3mm of rain over the last 7 days, the water levels in the Tilshead borehole have continued their inexorable rise, though the rate of increase has slowed considerably.  It just...

The level of water in the Tilshead borehole has been on a bit of knife edge for a week or two now, in the sense that over the last few years water doesn't start to flow in the Till under the bridge...

Well, it seems as if the winter rain has finally arrived, although the totals for January, at 60mm, were a little lower than the 189mm we had back in 2013-14 or even the 94mm we had last year.  The...

The slow rise of the water level in the Tilshead borehole continues.  It is almost a linear increase since the 1st December.  The effect this is having on the 4-year average is becoming...

With very little rain again this week, the borehole water levels have hardly risen.  The graph is looking quite alarming.  The 4 year average has been forced down by almost 4 metres, we are almost...

The water level in the Tilshead borehole continues to rise at a slow, but steady, rate.  In fact, levels are some 8 metres below the 4 year average for this time of year. A little rain is...