https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/userpics/20260217/20260217232929.jpg?w=680&h=383&colors=256
Look at the gauge. Has the water reached the top David if you read this? I'd think not, because the amount of rain this year has been so notable and it probably would have done so by now.
There are houses and land that have never had the level of groundwater flooding they are seeing around Dorchester this year. Yet housing developers want to build in the same places prone to flooding.
https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/25848481.calls-re-think-homes-near-fosse-green-dorchester/
Originally Posted by: NMA
I think that gauge is a standard issue, and OTT for this location.
As for building, the A29 (main road north out of Bognor, no real alternative in that direction) is closed again this weekend by flooding having just re-opened after a two-week closure for floodwater. This has happened in previous years, but normally only for a few days at a time. Yet there is current building of some 50 homes immediately next to the flooded area, whose exit will be on to this section of the A29. An Arun District councillor on Radio Sussex this morning was hinting at a much larger development in the -er - pipeline for just this area.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25867899.a29-shripney-road-closed-due-flooding-rain/
A bit further back, a developer built a small estate at Farringdon (the Hampshire Farringdon near Alton) in a 'dry' chalk valley despite warnings from the parish council that groundwater periodically flooded the area. This happened in 2000, before I moved to Chichester, but the area was flooded again in 2003 when the A32 which runs through the village was closed for several weeks.
https://www.farringdon.biz/news/chas.htm
And it looks as if it's happening again this year despite a flood alleviation scheme in the meantime.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALTONNEWS/posts/26299215059709386/
In the scramble to build, wetter weather gets overlooked; the developers' motto is build now and be somewhere else when it starts raining!
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Chichester 12m asl