<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone<br><br></div><div>Don't forget there is also urban/industrial infrastructure relating to water to be mapped: sewage treatment works, water treatment works, fire hydrants (see my <a href="http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2016/12/a-guide-to-mapping-fire-hydrants-in-the-uk.html#comment-109666">recent blog</a>) and aqueducts/pipelines (especially the buried ones like the Elan Valley Aqueduct which brings Birmingham's water from a reservoir in Wales). There's a massive project underway to create a parallel route from the River Severn for resilience purposes for the last part this aqueduct/pipeline before it reaches Birmingham. Mapping that will take a lot of effort (STW won't release any opendata maps claiming protection of national critical infrastructure - the sorry saga of which will form a future blog). It might be a satisfying project to dig out the Victorian and Edwardian archives in libraries and map the aqueducts/pipelines connecting cities to their respective reservoirs in the mountains.<br><br></div><div>Mapping fire hydrants is a nice little treasure hunt, which gives you an opportunity to revisit streets/roads that haven't been visited for a long time<br><br></div><div>Regards<br><br></div><div>brian<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 January 2017 at 09:38, Jez Nicholson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jez.nicholson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jez.nicholson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I use the quarterly projects to focus my attention on different aspects of the city I live in. Factlets that i've unearthed so far are:<br></div><div><br></div><div>* I'm going to have to be creative for water in Brighton & Hove as most of it is in the water table.</div><div><br></div><div>* Water influenced the shape of the city, as it did for many in the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>* There are (almost) no buildings to the north of the A27 (now the South Downs National Park) as it is the rainfall catchment area for water extracted at Patcham.</div><div><br></div><div>* Patcham, the village by the first roundabout just as you get to Brighton on the A23, was absorbed as part of Brighton in 1924 so that the water table could be protected from building development.</div><div><br></div><div>* There used to be many shack dwellings on the outskirts of the city, often owned by soldiers back from the war. These were stopped because they had no sewerage and were polluting the water table.</div><div><br></div><div>* The Wellesbourne 'river' was where groundwater surfaces at Patcham and all the way down London Road to the eponymous 'pool' of Pool Valley (now the coach station near to the Palace Pier).</div><div><br></div><div>* The Wellesbourne hardly ever appears now that water is extracted, but following persistent rain groundwater can appear in the basements of houses, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm building a groundwater flood forecasting system as part of my day job so know a bit.</div></div>
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