Hosepipe ban

[vic]

From 6 a.m. Friday - but why in Warrington? Doesn't our water come from either the Dee or the Winwick borehole?

[Evil Sid]

no idea really on either question.

 

wonder how it will effect bowling greens at pubs and clubs?

[Bazj]

 

wonder how it will effect bowling greens at pubs and clubs?

 

They can't be watered using a hose unless they have their own water supply...... simples

 

It is also illegal during a ban to use a hose to fill up your watering can!

 

It also affects the car cleaning companies too I think. Can't remember the last time but I'm sure they were shut

[Sue Durnim]

Will the beer taste stronger, now there is a hosepipe ban?

[Bazj]

I'd better get my drive jet washed tomorrow then!!

[observer]

S/Cumbria was swimming in flood water last Winter, problem was, it all ran off into the sea - not a drop saved for the Summer.

[Peter T]

Allegedly, the level of the oceans is increasing. Would it not be a good time to build de-salination plants around the coastline so that we have plenty of water? Kill two birds with one stone!

[Legion]

Firstly Business are not included in the ban, so car washes are exempt.

 

secondly don't worry about it, its going to be lashing down all weekend so your flowers will not suffer.

[observer]

We still get more rain than we know what to do with, the problem is, when it does p**s down, they are not capturing and collecting it.

[asperity]

Desalination is a very expensive way of doing it. Far better to build dams and reservoirs and fix the leaks

[observer]

Correct, AND employ folk in building them at the same time - thus stimulating economic growth.

[vic]

Correct, AND employ folk in building them at the same time - thus stimulating economic growth.

 

Perfect ... for a PFI scheme.

[Wingnut]

Each Prime Minister who is in power at the time, could have a dam built in his/her name, a bit like the Pharo's did with the pyramids. They could even use slave labour from the prisons. No machinery used, so cost effective as well.

[Eagle]

Good idea, as long as they got the spelling right; Damn Brown & Damn Blair.

[Wingnut]

Just been informed by a mate who works for U.U. that we in Warrington and Merseyside, get our drinking water from Lake Vyrnwy in Wales.

 

Manchester...Lake District, Thirlmere.

[inky pete]

We still get more rain than we know what to do with, the problem is, when it does p**s down, they are not capturing and collecting it.

 

Cumbria had only 50% of the average winter rainfall last winter. If it don't rain, you can't capture it.

[observer]

So those pictures of cars being carried down streets by flood water, were faked?!

[Bazj]

Cleaned my drive on Thursday night...... Sod united utilities. If they fixed the leaks instead of wasting my money on bonuses and dividends I may be a bit more understandng

[asperity]

We still get more rain than we know what to do with, the problem is, when it does p**s down, they are not capturing and collecting it.

 

Cumbria had only 50% of the average winter rainfall last winter. If it don't rain, you can't capture it.

 

I don't know where you got your statistics from IP, but the record from the Met Office site at Newtonrigg Cumbria gives 60mm for the first 4 months of this year compared to 35.5mm average for the first 4 months of the previous 10 years

[inky pete]

 

I don't know where you got your statistics from IP,

 

The Met office, via the BBC website.

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8797000/8797287.stm

 

 

and,

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10533376.stm

 

 

November was wet, and the reservoir levels did rise as a result. But the two months before and every month since have seen substantially below average rainfall.

 

Readings from one weather station taken in isolation can hardly be used to paint a picture of the region as a whole now can they?

[asperity]

And the BBC is NEVER wrong in its news reporting of course

[inky pete]

No more often than the Met Office!

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100707.html

 

Newton Rigg weather station is just outside Penrith - inland of all the mountains and therefore shielded from most of the rain which normally comes in from the Atlantic. Apart from the floods in November, which mainly affected the western part of Cumbria because the rain came in from that direction, last winter we had relatively little Atlantic weather and more from over to the east. In this case what rain there was, Newton Rigg got more of it than usual.

[asperity]

So because Newton Rigg is shielded from the rain, they got twice as much as normal! There has to be some logic to your thinking but I'm afraid it isn't obvious

[inky pete]

When the wet winter weather comes from the Atlantic - as it does most years - Newton Rigg is shielded from most of the rain by the mountains and so normally records lower rainfall than is experienced by the reservoirs further to the west in the Lake District.

 

Last winter most of the weather came from continental Europe and Russia to the east - hence the heavy snowfall. This meant that what rain there was fell more heavily on the eastern side of Cumbria, as the rain clouds met the mountains of the Lake district, than it did on the reservoirs catchment areas. So last winter - unusually - Newton Rigg experienced more rainfall than normal, and far more than did the West Cumbria reservoirs.

 

Simples!

[milly]

But what about all the snow on the Cumbrian hills? There was still patches of snow in March/ April - when it melts surely it runs into the lakes - or don't we count that because it's snow and not rain?

 

I think someone is stealing our water. Although it may not have rained as much as in the past it's not like we've had drought-like weather for months on end. It lasted about two weeks!