Well it rained all yesterday, a steady gentle rain, so this morning looking out I noticed cars were going slowly - we had a flooded road. What happens is simple, the river Seven which curves round the village is high. This means that that the drainage pipe from the road which outlets just under the bridge, the flap closes and the water trapped on the road turns into a flood. Although outside our house we are on slightly higher ground. The village people gets quite excited by it all and it means no one can walk down to the bridge. Our river which is culverted within 16 foot banks (it can rise that high when the water comes down from the moors) also has levys along its length on both sides of the river - think American Pie ;)
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| Almost down to the bridge |
This is Nigel's smallholding across the road, he already has a leak of water by his house which has turned into a duck pond, and then there is Rachel and John's sheep fields behind us....
If it is anything like round here it will disappear as quickly as it came and just leave horrible mud and then, come August, we shall be crying out for moisture.
ReplyDeleteYou are quite right it has almost disappeared, the ground is absolutely saturated, the ditches full of water and small lakes in the fields. All this heavy farm machinery is not helping of course.
ReplyDeleteThink levy thing tax think levee think bank
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel, should have checked ;)
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be a wet year all over. I don’t imagine that we will have to worry about a drought this summer.
ReplyDeleteNo the aquifers and reservoir must be full to brimming point.
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