The level of the River Thames has continued to rise across the floodplain near Abingdon.
Today the weather was brighter with some sun and clear reflections. I was among the ‘flood tourists’ out with phone cameras.
The Thames Valley Croquet Club were able to play on the raised part of their green above the flooded area of Hales Meadow.
The end of Nags Head Island was awash.
Rye Farm Meadow was mostly underwater. At Abingdon Weir, the lock keeper has been busy – not only with his usual duties of flood control but also putting out warning signs to show that the weir path has had to close again.
These snowdrops are just above water.
The Thames Water performance web site says that Farmoor Reservoir was 80% full at the end of January – below the average for that time of year. It looks like the rain is needed.
the reservoirs can’t be topped up because they rely on high flow from serving rivers for topping up…but the rivers are too full of poo to be allowed to be used.
What IS good though is that water privatisation means we have a better service, and of course plenty of choice. 👍
I read yesterday that our proposed sparkly huge and expensive new reservoir West of Abingdon will also rely on taking water from from our sad and poo-clogged river, so does that mean that too will be half empty most of the time?
on the contrary Kris, it will be half full! Stop being such a pessimist.