Andy Sparrow
Active member
Yesterday, for the first time in my 37 year experience, there was no water flowing in West Twin Brook (the Goatchurch valley). The stream bed at Flange Swallet was bone dry and even up as far as the adit entrance there was barely a trickle. There was no flow from the concrete basin which is supplied from water in the adit. The disappearance of both these water sources seems bizarre - one a surface stream but the other fed by springs deep inside the sandstone of Blackdown. One wonders if there is a new borehole or other source of water extraction which is having this extreme effect on the hydrology?