So how are your water levels doing?
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Topic: So how are your water levels doing?
Posted By: iGRF
Subject: So how are your water levels doing?
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 10:05am
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We're parched down here in the far south east, haven't had any serious rain for months, the lakes lower than I think I've ever seen it (Although I normally mostly sail in the winter on it) the tides way out. I hear Bewl is down, wonderful considering the 12 thousand new homes they are chucking up in our Town alone with no new reservoirs.
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Posted By: Fatboi
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 10:27am
| Rutland is overflowing! |
Posted By: Noah
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 2:50pm
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HISC goes up and down twice each day, as always! ------------- Nick D-Zero 316 |
Posted By: Eisvogel
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 3:17pm
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Birmingham (Edgbaston) is probably 2m below normal for this time of year. As it's a canal feeder, the Canals & Rivers Trust is now taking water out already for topping up the canals. Not good. ------------- Enterprise 20361 (Eisvogel), Laser 102727 (Halcyon), Laser 121986 |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 8:13pm
| How many million extra people over last 10 years, no extra water capacity, I can remember all the dire warnings of water rationing in the 80's/90's. |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 8:44pm
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They have just finished a new reservoir next to Grafham- it is underground. Grafham itself is full to the brim. ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 9:00pm
| There was a consultancy done a good few years ago to move water down south using canal network for aquaducts. |
Posted By: drifter
Date Posted: 11 May 17 at 9:11pm
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I doubt there are enough canals to get water down here to the south. The plans for a huge reservoir near Abingdon are still on the cards, fed from the Thames. Though my sailing days will be gone by then, or I'll own a Solo. Oh hang on... Our club lake still 100% full, and local stream well above expected flow. Someone is controlling it upstream I'd say ------------- Stewart |
Posted By: giraffe
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 9:16am
| Thames has low flow rate and has not been anywhere near as high as it should have been over the winter. |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 10:47am
I remember getting excited about the Abingdon proposal ten years ago, iirc it was JimC who said that it had already been on the cards for ten years prior....
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 10:54am
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We've had one mooted round here, they panicked a bit in 1976, did nothing, then every so often we get a drought and they talk some more, meanwhile thousands of houses are being built, bigger hospitals, we've had the Channel Tunnel Complex built, lots of new offices and a huge increase in population, this summer unless we get my predicted monsoon june, they are going to be pretty much f**ked.
The irony when they built the Channel Tunnel they offered our local council a desalinisation plant, they turned it down, corrupt b**tards that they are probably nobodys palm got greased. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: Chris 249
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 1:23pm
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Woops,doublepost.Sorry
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Posted By: Chris 249
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 1:25pm
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We had a long drought up until about four years ago. One club had its lake catch alight. Seriously. The lake had been totally dry for so long that there was a bushfire on it that almost burned the clubhouse. I was at another sailing club that was quite eerie. There were signs on the beach showing the jet-ski zone and the sailing zone - and they pointed towards a 17km stretch of dry lake bed. The lake had been completely dry for years and the sailing club has long gone. The water skiers had bought their own lake, which was an oasis in the outback. The big lake near my place has been dry for a few years until this season. Some of us have been windsurfing on it, which is an interesting experience. It's so flat that when you're 2 miles from the launching zone you are still in thigh-deep water and you can't get the centreboard down. The shortboarders have built ultra-shallow fins and sail out to the end of the fences with them, then they stop, put their normal fins in, and go sailing. If the wind shifts to the south and pushes the water to the north, the lake water in the north advances 10m up the shore; you leave you car near the water line and it's almost an island when you get back if there's been a shift. The lake is about 17 miles x 3 miles, I think, and almost nowhere more than 70cm deep at the moment, although decades ago it was high enough to race dinghies for some time. It's also sometimes got an amazing combination of steady wind and very flat water, so you can get the boards behaving in ways they normally never would. On the whole expanse of water there's probably never more than half a dozen windsurfers, and that's rare. Rather surreal, almost spooky, and quite wonderful.
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Posted By: Time Lord
Date Posted: 12 May 17 at 1:26pm
This was back in the mid1990s. The idea was to take water from the canal system to west of Birmingham (where there is spare capacity) around the canal network south of Bham to the Napton flight on the Oxford canal pumped up onto Oxford summit and then down to Thames Water small reservoir in Banbury. Unfortunately TW would not pay enough for the water. Could still happen if TW get desperate as the pumps to carry the water around uphill locks were installed and system now used to keep up the water level on the Oxford summit and to keep Boddington reservoir from running dry. Wouldn't have reached the furthest reaches of Kent so no good for Grf! ------------- Merlin Rocket 3609 |
Posted By: zippyRN
Date Posted: 13 May 17 at 11:50am
Anglian have got a balalncing act on their hands to try and keep everywhere but Pitsford as full as possible while they are doing work on Pitsford.
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Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 13 May 17 at 8:53pm
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Datchet is currently full too ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: JohnJack
Date Posted: 15 May 17 at 9:21am
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Up North, we were at Hollingworth Lake yesterday and it is starting to get a little low (not good news for those with fixed rudders getting out of the harbour! |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 16 May 17 at 7:56am
| how's Carsington? heading up there late May and it would be lovely to find some water to go sailing on rather than mud skipping |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 16 May 17 at 8:42am
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From Chris 249's post, it seems we have a little way to go in terms of drought. Our main issue will be weed, as usual. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: BeenThere
Date Posted: 19 May 17 at 9:38pm
| was up at Carsington a few weeks ago in the van and stayed next to the lake and the tide was heading out. |