Over the weekend I was driving across country, taking offspring to the velodrome in Manchester. First opportunity to see for my own eyes just how low reservoirs are adjacent the roads between Sheffield & Manchester. Indeed, some are virtually empty with vast tracts of reservoir bed exposed. It really sank home just how dry a year 2003 has been. Next Spring/Summer could be interesting when water rationing is brought in, methinks! Time to start stocvking up on bottled water, perhaps!
Cheers, helen s
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Over the weekend I was driving across country, taking offspring to the velodrome in Manchester. First opportunity to see for my own eyes just how low reservoirs are adjacent the roads between Sheffield & Manchester. Indeed, some are virtually empty with vast tracts of reservoir bed exposed. It really sank home just how dry a year 2003 has been. Next Spring/Summer could be interesting when water rationing is brought in, methinks! Time to start stocvking up on bottled water, perhaps!
Here too - alas the state of the reservoirs means that *months* of hissing down is required...
Cheers, helen s
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Over the weekend I was driving across country, taking offspring to the velodrome in Manchester. First opportunity to see for my own eyes just how low reservoirs are adjacent the roads between Sheffield & Manchester. Indeed, some are virtually empty with vast tracts of reservoir bed exposed. It really sank home just how dry a year 2003 has been. Next Spring/Summer could be interesting when water rationing is brought in, methinks! Time to start stocvking up on bottled water, perhaps!
Cheers, helen s
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In 96 one could walk in a dry resevoir in West Yorkshire and see the ruined houses and church and bridge over the river that has been submerged since the dam was built down stream about 40 years prior - spooky.
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Over the weekend I was driving across country, taking offspring to the velodrome in Manchester. First opportunity to see for my own eyes just how
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reservoirs are adjacent the roads between Sheffield & Manchester.
Yes Helen, we based our off-road ride at the Fairholmes car park in the Derwent Valley today (Sun) and were amazed at the low levels of the ressies. Being a Leicester lad (or old scote depending on your POV) I am dependant on water from the Derwent.
OTOH Rutland Water is quite low but I've seen it lower by this time of the year and imagine it will be pumped full by springtime. The turning point for Rutland, which for some years after privatisation never appeared to ever be full, was the completion of a pipeline that would enable Anglian Water to sell water to the southern counties AFAIK. Since then it has been full every spring which is a costly procedure as the water is pumped from rivers rather than natural catchment.
In 96 one could walk in a dry resevoir in West Yorkshire and see the ruined houses and church and bridge over the river that has been submerged since the dam was built down stream about 40 years prior - spooky.
There's a dam in the Espace Killy skiing area (Tignes & Val d'Isère). On one of my visits there (late 80s, early 90s) the entire lake had been drained to also reveal an old village, complete with a church. I believe the village had last been seen some 40 years previously.
James
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In 96 one could walk in a dry reservoir in West Yorkshire and see the
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houses and church and bridge over the river that has been submerged since the dam was built down stream about 40 years prior - spooky.
I did something similar at Haweswater in the 80's. It is most odd walking over bridges spanning a stream that last ran several decades ago. Manchester corporation demolished the village before the valley was flooded. Someone had recreated the outline of the village church and several of the buildings, it was a poignant experience,
The Observer this weekend had a picture of Scammenden reservoir showing how low the water levels are and the accompanying article suggests that we could be faced with flood warnings whilst there are hosepipe bans in force in the South/Southeast, bizarre.
The Observer this weekend had a picture of Scammenden reservoir showing how low the water levels are and the accompanying article suggests that we could be faced with flood warnings whilst there are hosepipe bans in force in the South/Southeast, bizarre.
I drove past Scammonden at the weekend, sure is low but I have seen it lower. I ride up that way weekly in the summer.
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