Tag: Gatwick airport

• 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…

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  November 30, 2022

  Analysis, flood, Floods, Gatwick airport, lag time, River Mole

  Gatwick airport, geography, hydrograph, lag times, river discharge, River Mole, River Mole drainage basin

• A video following the Mole downstream from source to Thames!

  

  I’ve made a video to celebrate our local river by following it downstream from source to the confluence with the Thames. It highlights the challenges our river faces and picks up some of the key places and features (obviously not all… and slightly skewed to where I know best which is the upper mole). I…

  sirgeogy

  November 17, 2022

  flood, video

  Gatwick airport, River Mole

• 2013 Flooding on the River Mole: causes, impacts and management

  

  The River Mole is a modest lowland river in SE England that rises near Rusper in the wooded hilly heartland of the Surrey / Sussex Weald, near Crawley and Horsham. The Mole and its tributaries flow broadly north, through Crawley, around and under Gatwick airport, before meandering through mostly rural countryside to Dorking. The Mole…

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  January 4, 2014

  flood, Flood defence, Floods, Gatwick airport, hazards, Reigate, River Mole

  flood hazards, flood risk assessment, Gatwick airport, geography, hazard impacts, hazard responses, risk, River Mole, River Mole drainage basin, River Thames