Published by St Paul’s & Hampton Park Churches for the Tupsley Community
Issue 77 Spring 2020
TupsleyVoice THE GREAT FLOOD OF FEBRUARY 2020
The Great Floods of February 2020 will live long in the memory of countless people throughout the country, especially those whose homes and businesses were f looded. Very many communities across the country from the valleys of South Wales to the Calder Valley, York and the Dales all in Yorkshire, and countless villages between, were severely f looded when Storm Dennis brought a massive rainfall to Britain during the weekend of 15/16 February. This followed intense rainfall the previous weekend which resulted in the ground being totally saturated and unable to absorb any of the Storm Dennis rainfall. The massive
f low of water coming off the Welsh mountains caused a rapid and huge rise in the water levels in the Rivers Wye and Lugg causing serious f looding of roads, houses and villages throughout Herefordshire. Tenbury Wells on the River Teme was especially badly hit. The water in the Wye rose to a peak of 6.11 metres at Wye Bridge, Hereford, at noon on Monday 17 February, which the Environment Agency reported as the highest for 200 years – though a plaque on the wall of Hereford Rowing Club suggested it had been exceeded in December 1960 by another 5” (12 cm). The water levels in the River Lugg also reached unprecedented levels.
At noon on the 17 February, the spectacular flooding of the houses in Greyfriars Avenue (next to Greyfriars Bridge) was inundated with TV crews from several channels reporting for the National and Local News, albeit this was by no means the first time most of the houses have been flooded. Interestingly their cameras did not show the unaffected new block of flats on the river bank in Greyfriars Avenue which were built on stilts with a high level walkway to the Bridge. This is perhaps the solution for all future buildings on flood plains, even if already protected by flood defences that are designed to prevent historic 1 in 100 year floods. The new multi million Continued on Page 6
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