Tag Archives: hydrology

Looking into Selly Park Flooding

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Simon Dixon

In June this year intense rainfall led to localised flooding in South Birmingham in and around University of Birmingham. One area which was particularly badly hit was Pershore Rd near the Birmingham Nature Centre. This area is near to the … Continue reading →

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How do we use wood in river management?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Simon Dixon

The presence of in-stream wood in rivers is a fairly complex and chaotic management issue. It’s not neat and tidy and to a degree wood in a channel is unpredictable, both in its effects and its behaviour. Wood moves around … Continue reading →

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What are environmental flows?

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ben Gillespie

You may have heard about the current restoration efforts on the Colorado River: an eight week long ‘pulse flow’ is being released from Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border (USA). This pulse flow is designed to replicate spring snowmelt driven floods that … Continue reading →

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Uttarkhand floods in India

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Simon Dixon

In response to the devastating floods in the Uttarakhand province of India there has been an almost inevitable shift from the initial shock and horror towards attempts to apportion blame for the events. In many ways this is something that … Continue reading →

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I love rivers because..

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Simon Dixon

I saw the following tweet on Valentine’s day Fill in the blank: I love rivers because ________________________! fb.me/2tk93VAMD — Adam Broadhead (@losturbanrivers) February 15, 2013 I thought about this for a while and decided that 140 characters would be no … Continue reading →

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Rivers flood

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Trevor Bond

Trev Bond explains that rivers flood, and that this is entirely normal Continue reading →

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River restoration ‘quick-wins’ – getting the best flow for your florin

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Trevor Bond

It’s not all about Manning’s n and Navier-Stokes. . Trevor Bond explains that a fair amount of good river restoration can be done without a calculator. Continue reading →

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The characteristics of English chalk streams

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Trevor Bond

Originally posted on The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog:
In the first post of this series we considered the history and origins of English chalk streams; where they were and where they’d come from. In this post we’ll look at…

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