As you can imagine, with the heavy rains of the past two days or so, the Lynnside Community garden was once again flooded earlier this morning. Flooding has affected large areas of Argyll & Bute, with several roads closed just when the commuters wanted to use them.
School kids and workers were unable to use Dalintart Lane because the water was at least 10 inches deep.
It is the 5th such event since 10th October, 2008, and so far the 2nd worst I have observed since I arrived here in early May last year. The bad thing is that much more rain has been forecast for the next few days... It remains to be seen how much of the produce, the potatoes especially, that Graham has so diligently put into the ground will pull through without rotting.Personally, I think some mitigation work is required:A lot of debris has been caught up by the footbridge on Dalintart Lane, some of it planking, some of it heavy wood, threatening to damage the fence erected last September.
One of the problems is definitely the fact that the modern concrete slab across the burn is significantly lower than the original (19th century?) arch; the pipes/culverts running underneath it also block debris.While I'm not sure raising the slab to give the water more room would sort the problem, I am confident that the water would back up a lot less if those obstacles were removed.
See for yourselves -- I'm attaching a few photos and a small video clip (medium resolution so here's hoping your inboxes won't fill up too badly). Click here for a video clip.
By about 10:50, the rain had abated, and the water has receded to the extent that the lane is passable again. But this is no reason to be complacent: more rain has been forecast and the weather charts show large, deep green swathes of heavy rain coming up from the south.
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