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A Close Call!

1/15/2013

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High water at Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum (photo by Paul Webster)
I'm sure that like me, many of you spent the days leading up to Christmas wondering if we would see flooding in Uckfield akin to the year 2000 - it was a pretty close call! I received a number of interesting emails and photos showing water levels across the catchment, with water levels higher than seen for a good few years. The gate on the flood defence in the Waitrose car park was closed as a result of the high water levels, but thankfully was not put to the test.
Thanks to the good people at Phormium IT Solutions I was also able to keep an eye on water levels via their Uck webcam (showing the Roller Mill). Also special thanks to Wendy Tagg who provided me with a comprehensive round up of things she had noticed relating to flooding and surface water, and also posts by local people in the catchment. I would very much like to hear where, and how high water levels were where you are in the catchment and any photos you might have taken.
Fingers crossed ground water levels drop before we get any further heavy rain. I've had reports of lots of new springs popping up all over the catchment - a sure sign that the ground water is higher than we have seen for some time. On the plus side the high water levels have provided us with a great deal of information about how water travels through the catchment, and this will help us to identify where we could make changes to improve things in the future.

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    Sandra Manning-Jones is the TrUck project officer.

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