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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...

A very dry and cold week, in which the Environment Agency finally issued a Flood Warning for the River Till, too long after the first properties in the valley had needed to take pre-emptive action to...

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...

A happy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year to you all.  In the words of the fictional Jack Jones (that's Lance Corporal Jones of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard), my first words before putting up...

A very merry Christmas to all of you.  I hope you have a smashing and relaxing day with your family and friends.  Last week we had quite a bit of rain and the aquifer reacted very quickly and the...

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...

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...

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...