[Talk-GB] Brighton water (quarterly project)

[Jez Nicholson]

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:

* I'm going to have to be creative for water in Brighton & Hove as most of
it is in the water table.

* Water influenced the shape of the city, as it did for many in the UK.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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).

* The Wellesbourne hardly ever appears now that water is extracted, but
following persistent rain groundwater can appear in the basements of
houses, etc.

I'm building a groundwater flood forecasting system as part of my day job
so know a bit.
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