My Neighbour's garden is now completly underwater and lake Colfe has been born.....
Its done this a few times over the years but not to this extent as far as I recall. We currently have 4.25" in the rain guage for December and the weather seems set to continue unsettled until I return to work at least....Ho hum.

We have an underground stream that runs across our garden. It used to surface during long spells of wet weather, but we hadn't seen it for a few years, not even this summer. Which shows how low the water table had got. It reappeared with a vengeance on Christmas day, flooding one of the sheds.

2000 and 2007 spring to mind(ho, ho). When we moved in an old chap a few doors away told me that there was a culverted stream under these gardens but have not been a able to verify this.

We were told the same by the people who sold us our house. There are apparently a lot of them in FH. I wonder if there is some sort of map? With Sydenham Wells above us and the Pool River below us, is not really surprising.

This post was last modified: 28-12-2012 09:47 AM by rshdunlop.

Luckily we are on the Hill, but the high water table we have here is trouble. We moved here in 1997 and there is always leaks and seepage somewhere