It has been stormy in many parts of the country but here, we’ve got off relatively lightly, although there was much rain over the weekend. On my regular route, there’s a section along the #ExeterFloodReliefChannel and today it was in full use. As far as anecdotal evidence for #ClimateChange is concerned, at a local level at least, a quarter of the century ago, the channel was always dry – you could walk across it.
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These days, however, it is carrying water (i.e. doing its job) most months except in summer. Here is #photograph of the #channel running alongside a segregated #Footpath and #Cyclepath. Incidentally, this is almost exactly where, three months ago, I ran into a dog’s lead as the owners were walking on the footpath and the dog was on the grass verge on the right.
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This is the spillway from the #RiverExe into the #channel. The #engineers who designed and built it had foresight to see the future effects of #GlobalWarming, #Urbanization, changes in #CatchmentAreas and so on. It is by no means an easy task but I hazard a guess that they may have to revisit this and other flood-relief measures along the #River.
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