Christmas is Coming, and so is Sewage Pollution
Following the severe storms last weekend a smaller storm is crossing the West Country this morning. Here's the Met Office forecast for today's accumulated rainfall by midday: That shows around…
South West Water Announce Desalination Plant in Cornwall
In a press release yesterday South West Water announced that: South West Water is making progress towards bringing desalination to Cornwall after appointing Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions to move…
Sewage Pollution Following Storms Elin and Fergus
It's been raining a lot recently here in the West Country. What's more the Met Office are forecasting plenty more: https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1733146977196503218 Here is the current Surfers Against Sewage sewage pollution…
Kasia Turajczyk Open Art Studio
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October Sewage Pollution in South West England
After a few days of warm, sunny weather the Met Office in Exeter issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain last night: The heavens duly opened across South West…
September Sewage Pollution in South West England
Following sewage pollution incidents all around the coast of South West England on August 31st we’ve since enjoyed/endured 6 days of an official heatwave. However that hasn’t prevented a heavy shower this morning causing the activation of several combined sewer overflows in Plymouth. Here is the Met Office’s rain radar map at 6 AM this morning:
Here is South West Water’s WaterFit Live map of Plymouth a few hours later:
(more…)The September Heatwave in South West England
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency has issued a yellow Heat-Health Alert for South West England between 2 PM today and 9 PM on Sunday:
According to an associated Met Office press release:
(more…)The Campaign to Save Devon’s Mobile Libraries
I learned about the current campaign to save Devon’s mobile libraries during Sir Geoffrey Cox MP's "village surgery" in the Baxter Hall at Petrockstowe last week. Since then a reader…
Autumnal Sewage Pollution at Widemouth Bay and Bude
The end of meteorological summer is upon us. Schools go back next week. Storms are raging in the North Atlantic. It's time to start checking the surf forecast at our…
The Continuing Drought in West Devon
It became clear last week that South West Water (SWW) won’t be lifting the current hosepipe ban here in West Devon for quite some time. As a result of a process that began on August 1st, the hosepipe ban in Cornwall will be lifted on September 25th, 8 weeks later.
South West Water’s next decision point for the Roadford Water Resource Zone is later this week, on September 1st. SWW haven’t released a set of reservoir water level graphs for the week ending August 27th yet. However they have published this summary infographic today:
Here are some pictures we took earlier this week at Roadford Lake, showing what the current water level of 55% looks like in reality:
Comparing this week’s water level with last week’s graph it is clear that the “Decision point for TUB removal” on September 1st is well below the current level:
