Notices

Tilshead Borehole Levels: Sunday 11th February 2024

A period with quite a bit of moderate rainfall; just over 40mm for the week.   That has been enough to slow the rate of fall in the aquifer water levels, but not to reverse the direction of travel...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: Sunday 28th January 2024

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...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: Sunday 21st February 2024

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...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: Monday 15th January 2024

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...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 7th January 2024

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...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 31st December 2023

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...

Tilshead Borehole Levels: 24th December 2023

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...

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