We’re posing this question much earlier than last year, and here’s why.
Despite the very wet Autumn here in the wild and woolly West Country, South West Water still have a “hosepipe ban” in place across Cornwall. The automated rainfall gauge 49104 at Colliford Lake reveals that there has been very little rainfall in the area for the last three weeks:
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As a consequence of that, the water level in Cornwall’s largest reservoir is now still below 50% and decreasing:
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