Where Is This water Coming From ?

[GAJ52]

I went for a walk near Chertsey lock today and was surprised at the speed of the river flow. Considering we haven't had any substantial rain for a few weeks, as the title says where is all this water coming from. Many parts upstream are either Yellow Boards or No Stream, so why is the flow in this area so high ?

Glen

 

[ianc1200]

The road at Mill End (next to Hambleden Lock) was flooded again yesterday, but we are still on red boards in this area. I think locally there is still a lot of water in some areas.

 

[Mirror Painter]

In a similar way, there are fields in Hampshire, near but well above, the Test which continue to flood adjacent roads. I understand that the fields are on chalk and so there is always greater run off but don't quite understand where all the water is coming from.

 

[prof pat pending]

The water table is still very high, it'll take a while to get back to its normal level

 

[BrendanS]

The road at Mill End (next to Hambleden Lock) was flooded again yesterday, but we are still on red boards in this area. I think locally there is still a lot of water in some areas.

The B480 up past Stonor Park and Pishill still resembled a fast flowing river in places on Monday, and has been since the floods

 

[byron]

My riverside looks green and tidy buy literally an inch under the grass is water. The grounds are like a sponge and all this has to eventually run off as soon as gravity allows it.

 

[oldgit]

Driving around Kent at the foot of the North Downs, many long dormant streams have reappeared.
Usually running down side of the of road.
A small byroad near us collapsed as stream undermined its foundations.They bodged it up once but it washed away again.
Had to lay a pipe under the road to take away the flow of water.

 

[byron]

Driving around Kent at the foot of the North Downs, many long dormant streams have reappeared.
Usually running down side of the of road.
A small byroad near us collapsed us as stream undermined its foundations.They bodged it up once but it washed away again.
Had to lay a pipe under the road to take away the flow of water.

It's quite interesting how many Springs and Streams have appeared. In this area too there's been quite a few re-appearances. Surprisingly though one which I really expected to resurface hasn't yet I know this one to be about 20' wide and 3-4" deep and flowing for miles across the fields until it finds it's way into the Thames underground for the last half mile or so.

 

[oldgit]

Springs.

Locally nearly all our old springheads have a Southern Water bore hole on the site.
Some of the springs would have been around for thousands of years,we have managed to destroy them in the last 100 years by over extraction.
There are several Neolithic settlements close by.
This one is at Kits Coty.

 

[byron]

.
There are several Neolithic settlements close by.
This one is at Kits Coty.

Tony will be familiar with all those settlements from his youth.

 

[teddington_lock]

Does anyone know if there is water at Thames Head currently ?

 

[Brayman]

Does anyone know if there is water at Thames Head currently ?

I thought Michael Bentine fixed that leaking tap years ago

 

[funinthesun]

Tony will be familiar with all those settlements from his youth.

I blame the parents. Or possibly the weather

 

[oldgit]

Tony will be familiar with all those settlements from his youth.

Think I did spot a pot of Woad in his makeup bag.