... and another, much bigger flood event...

Your reporter hates to be right in her predictions, but she is. And has these images taken on October 23, 2008, to show what happened during the previous night and morning. Most of the future community garden area has now been flooded for hours. Flooding must have started in the night and the river was in spate well before dawn.
This was the situation shortly after 9AM -- in addition to the footbridge across the burn creating an obstacle to the water, the fence at the bottom of the garden is blocking outflow. The work done by the Employability team virtually destroyed, the topsoil being washed away.Nature's resilience is probably greater than ours: three mallards have since then taken up "residence" and are happily scoffing the nutritious food the flood has washed up -- at the bottom of the garden fence of the terrace of flats along Miller Road.
Two hours later, the water has actually come through the fence and into the private gardens/drying greens. The car across the burn looks uncomfortably close to the water's edge...
At midday the water continued to rage down the concrete channel, maximum water level yet to come. And another such rainfall is just around the corner (or heading in from the Atlantic, expected to make landfall Friday night). It will be interesting to see what happens...