... during and after a flood event

Neighbours had warned that parts of the garden territory would get flooded. Early on October 10, 2008, that's what happened.
Even on the best of days, the low-lying culverts below the wee pedestrian bridge across the burn tend to skim the top of the water (enlarge the photos by clicking on them):

Aug. 2008

On October 8, 2008, this is what the burn looked like as it ran in its concrete trough next to the newly-cleared area of the Community Garden:

Oct. 8, 2008

A pretty wee stream with crystal-clear, tea-coloured water. The weather was lovely. Then followed a night and a day and another night of heavy rain, with this result:

Oct. 10, 2008

Your reporter was woken by the noise of the angry burn. Something in its rushing had changed, however, and she got her camera out. Above, you can see water just beginning to seep across the lane at the west end of the garden grounds. Time: 06:17AM.
A little over an hour later the water had filled the lane up to the bend before it goes up to the steps, the bottom end of the community garden-to-be was flooded, and water was rushing across the car park and back into the burn below the wee pedestrian bridge:

Your reporter is not sure she'd feel all that comfortable living in one of the houses next to the Black Lynn...

At 08:20, the lane was still impassable -- quite a few people had to turn back and take the long way round. At least it had stopped raining and the water was no longer rising. In fact, it was beginning to recede.

By 09:30, the water-level was significantly reduced and three mallards were having a ball paddling about their new 'lake':

By 2:30PM, the stream was back inside its narrow concrete canal and the pool had shrunk to a puddle that was no longer worthy of the mallards' attention.

It will happen again -- that much seems certain given the location of the culvert(s) beneath the concrete slab across the Black Lynn.

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