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Anyone noticed that the water levels at Portishead lake are down?

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By thepickler at 21:15 on 24/01/11

          
 
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    Something to do with a broken sluice gate,... was in this weeks local papers.

    By andyh2000 at 10:29 on 29/01/11

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    Good opportunity to make statement, apart from being frozen silly as my daughter was, with my mother's insistent "recreation", the Lake often leaks it is a coastal marsh filled in by PoWs in jankers, apart from that nobody else seems to know of this great resource for Portishead as the tourism increases, perhaps the new hotel will buck up the town. My uncle used to play cricket in the flood waters plain there and my grandfather carried his wife to safety in 1960, but then that is Model T Ford for you, stranded, symbolic. That was before the 2007 Great Flodde. And Cheltenham flooded twice 1977 and 2007 but by the latter downtown had been turned into young people cellars and so it was worse sociologically and economically, I was there 1977 I saw it, in 1972 the students did a river project to resolve it, with a US Landscape who went home, so that was wasted also. Portishead apparently drowned in snow drift in 1982, I was stuck in Bristol, the place became Tundra and soils altered as a result. As did landslides. So, I am Hydrology graduated from Geology UCW, University 1969, not a public officer, those who have practices in "Environment" mostly do so to make the place into their front room with air conditioned life, even for birds on waste tips, silly pet society, my Dad was one and his Aunts others, makes animlas sweat and gain bugs they should not have as well as your Chez Lounge, bird dust everywhere, asthma for all, all the assessments come from that, the countryside and most urban outdoor is open system, it exchanges everything including energy. I contain my work legally to Hydrology and structure geology, there are planning laws use those please, not start a riot. I cannot and will not help any longer due to the general demise of authority and lack of data by research puts many things back where they were decades ago; shame, we could have made progress. Tread carefully, it is dangerous out there and decades of old industrial and mine waste and dumped unused wire and equipment and some used and not to be tampered with; let's be careful out there (Hill Street Blues). Enough doctors have slipped into the political mire as it is. Farmers have a right to protect their lands in a sensible manner as do foresters.

    By MDSHydroGeo at 10:48 on 16/05/11

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    On the first day of Christmas the newspaper said to me
    Let's put some pylons high upon the Hill
    On the second day of Christmas the TV said to me
    Let's build some concrete foundations in south Level
    ... and so it goes on
    and the lake leaks and Las Vegas runs out of water and East Anglia desiccates ...
    On the 12th day of Christmas the TV said to me
    That's Christmas over for another year ...

    O.K. so they might not want it
    I have not yet finished
    Refuse to invade The Ditch
    Will not sell my water to the French however good they think it is
    and decided to enjoy an airplane trip but wish it was an Airbus.
    Get away from it all, see the rest of earth functions without all this junk,
    get some perspective, read learn and enjoy watch a picture of frozen Priors Wood Have a Good New Year, do not fall in the Lake it is so shallow with rubbish anyway some chap walked out to get his boat. It is only a mud hollow padded out with some beach gear so if the water infill is less it always falls, best let the sea back in, save a lot of trouble. Mike

    By MDSHydroGeo at 19:01 on 29/12/11

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