Yea -Brum gets the Elan valley stuff and Liverpool the Vernwy (next the Severn)
stuff while Severn-Trent, having switched off the Vernwy supply to us - which
heads for Liverpool via reservoirs just above the town and fed the area for
over a hundred years. And S-T now pumps back to Oswestry district water
extracted from the Severn at Shrewsbury which is so polluted and hard that they
have recently finally admitted to over chlorinating to compensate. So we all
have to filter our water and we never fill our (boat) tanks from any tap this
side of Grindley Brook.
sean neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Posted by: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:54 pm (PST)
I haven't got my maps with me but I can't work out how the Welsh hills
would feed the Avon.
* Simple - due to the infamy of Severn-Trent who transfer water from the
Elan Valley and send it down Hatton and over the spillway into the Avon
after the burghers of Brum have flushed it away!
Sean
PS The Leam at Marton is now ~ 4 feet below the banks and flowing much
slower, though still muddy and above summer levels. It's been damp but
with no real rain.
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