Flood Alert Information

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 18th December 2022

After a week of no precipitation of any normal sort, you'd be forgiven for thinking that water levels in the borehole would have stopped rising, or even fallen, but you'd be mistaken.  Although the...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 11th December 2022

Here we have the first real flood report of the year after collecting just over a weeks worth of data; and what a week it has been. Although the levels remain slightly below average, they are...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 1st December 2022

The year rolls round once again and I know 1st December is eagerly awaited by at least one villager as it marks the start of the rather arbitrary "flood season" for the River Till.   I have been...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 31st March 2022

Well, the end of March 2022 has arrived and with it, the end of the 2021-2022 water level monitoring; at least on a daily level.  There will be no more reports until the start of December 2022 -...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 27th March 2022

The last full week of this reporting season has continued to surprise me.  Despite no rain for almost a fortnight, water levels in the Tilshead borehole have continued to rise throughout the week. ...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 20th March 2022

Well, surprise, surprise!  The torrential rain on Wednesday put Boscombe Down on the BBC's list of the top 5 wettest places in the UK.  I would expect that upwards rise to continue until the end of...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 14th March 2022

Apologies for the delay in publishing this latest bulletin; due entirely to not having access to a computer and fast broadband.  Not to worry, the situation in the Tilshead borehole has been very...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 27th February 2022

Despite some truly dreadful weather over the last week, with several overnight deluges and even a bit of wintry weather that the Met Office would call snow despite it not settling, the water level in...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 20th February 2022

Well, well! The Tilshead borehole continues to surprise.  In an average winter, when the aquifer is filling steadily with few dry spells of weather, a torrential downpour is followed about four days...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 13th February 2022

It's been an interesting week in the aquifer.  Water levels rose marginally last Monday and Tuesday, stayed static on Wednesday and Thursday, then fell slightly on Friday and Saturday.  That's...

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