Category: Analysis
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Mandatory SuDs for England!
Good news today regarding SuDS, stormwater management, storm overflows, flood risk and pollution. Mandatory SuDS are coming to England. Developers will no longer have an automatic right to connect stormwater to the sewer but will be required to have sustainable drainage systems approved from a SuDs approval body before starting any construction work that has…
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News! Real-Time storm discharge data now available from Thames Water
Some significant news on river pollution! Thames Water have today 4/01/2023 released a “live” map showing near real-time data on storm discharges at their sewage treatment plants. This is useful to identify how often and how long storm overflows occur. Thames Water want to be more transparent and open about their storm discharge activity. We…
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Rainfall intensity rules River Mole runoff, to a point.
Bit of a cryptic title but this follows my previous post on how our flashy local river responds to rain. Two recent contrasting rainfall events occurred at the tail end of this wet November and it struck me how the Mole responded quite differently to these. So in this post I have drawn up hydrographs…
The Mole Story 