Ross-on-Wye

These are pumping water down to the point where the pipe ends at Fiveways just prior to where the mill race was located.

Pumps in the Chatterley Brook
[Courtesy of Nuttall's]
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This area further up the Rudhall Brook is going to be the spillway. Here, as partially seen in the photo to the left, the bank will be lowered to form a green spillway.

The bank will be lowered so that when the level in the brook rises to a level that could overwhelm the banks further down stream towards Ross, then the water will flow out here and be retained behind the bund. The water level flowing down the brook and from the bund can then be regulated to greatly reduce the likelihood of flooding due to the Rudhall and Chatterley¹ Brooks.

Here we see that the drainage pipes have now made it to the edge of the site at Fiveways.

This is the bifurcation chamber during the floods. As can be seen in the photo, various bits of the shuttering are floating around in the flood water.

The tunnel sections have been added where the bridge over the Chatterley Brook¹ once was. Unfortunately the heavy rain has flooded the area thus making work much harder.

This is a view from the other direction of the square pipes in the channel as the work continues on the bridge.

Now the pipes have been added from just upstream of the Broadmeadows Caravan Park entrance bridge all around the site to a point somewhere between Broadmeadows Industrial Estate and the Kings Acre/Fiveways car park.

These piles, each 5m long, are being driven into the ground so that a trench can be dug out without the sides collapsing. The tunnel sections can then be laid into the trench as it makes its way towards Broadmeadows from the Fiveways/Kings Acre Car park area. To the right can be seen the back of J.S.Carpets new store.

This method of working is easier then using the box clamps, which can be seen at the bottom of the shot (the yellow and green pieces of equipment), and should mean that progress will be quicker and easier for the people working in the trench.

In the photo the opening that can be seen to the bottom left is the where the tunnel boring machine will start its journey to the Fiveways/Kings Acre site.

This steelwork is the tunnel entrance support that can be seen in the shaft photo above.

This is a view looking from a different angle at the various bits of equipment that can be seen from the Rope Walk.

Here the flood waters can be seen as being right up to the edge of the site.

The sheer volume of water going over the sluice area can be clearly seen here.

Even though the River Wye has burst its banks, and the brook is very high, works still continue at the bottom of the rising shaft at Homs Road in preparation for the arrival of the tunnelling equipment.

Here the flood waters can be seen as nearly reaching the top of the tunnel sections which shows how deep the water was at this point.