Wednesday 25 April 2012

Drought? What drought?

As it's bucketing down today, it occurred to me to check the water levels in our various local reservoirs.

South Eastern two reservoirs at Arlington and Ardingley are nearly full.

Southern Water is not having such a good time, with Powdermill at 100% but the others considerably below par.

But don't forget that it's not just how quickly they fill that counts, it's also the speed at which we empty them. Southern and Southeastern both have information about how to be economical with water, lessons that we will have to live with round here for a long time to come.

Nature reserve

It really is a nature reserve - the wetlands at Rye. They're doing all sorts of work on the river banks.