2026-10-05 17:40 UTC
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online 2026-10-05 17:59
@Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @John_Loader@ohai.social @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk First, I should say I don’t know in detail, but I’d suspect that traditional fallback doesn’t work anymore: - building on floodplain - too much catastrophic flooding with high winter rain rates - too much soil erosion and leaching, damaging the soils, and dumping too much nitrate/shit into the river. Really need to capture the winter rains, save them for summers, minimise land inundation / water table changes.
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@John_Loader@ohai.social 2026-10-06 09:12
@Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @BashStKid@mastodon.online @pthane@toot.wales @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk Not just Melverley but Shrewsbury to past Welshpool. But they can only take so much and there doesn’t seem to be downstream control to slow the release of that water.