Environment

A very interesting week indeed.  The rain at the weekend left run-off puddles in the river bed down-stream of the Church Street bridge, but with no puddles visible upstream of this bridge.  The...

It's been a very wet week and that has meant that there has been an awful lot of surface water around.  If you have been into Salisbury along the Netherhampton road you will have seen that the water...

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Athough we have only had 8.3 mm of rain during the week, despite a forecast that suggested much more, water levels in the borehole have risen slowly, but steadily during the course of the last seven...

After a long, hot, and exceptionally dry summer, you might be forgiven for thinking that water levels in the River Till aquifer would be very low and to some extent that is true.  The current water...

We are rather regretting our comments on rain in our "final" flood bulletin of 2018.  Typically, it hasn't stopped raining since!  As of this morning, the water level in the Tilshead borehole...

Well, we've come to the end of the 2017-2018 flood watch.  Although we began 2018 with one of the dryest January and Februarys of the last 5 years, we have ended with the wettest March.   Although...

After two weeks of falling water levels in the Tilshead Borehole we have had a sudden upturn in the last 48 hours.  This is almost certainly due to the snow melt that has taken place over the last...

Apologies for the late publication of this weeks data, but Andy has been away and not able to get online.  Here is the good news.  Despite all the snow and a fair bit of rain, water levels in the...

We are bringing you this a day early this week for operational reasons.   Despite all the snowmelt and some rain early in the week, the borehole levels have stayed prety much the same. Overall,...