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More intensively worked land for agriculture is found nearer the eastern end of the river where it flows into the Tweed. [6] The river is prone to flooding with serious events in Hawick in 2005 when it caused "millions pounds worth of damage", and the river level was recorded at 11 feet (3.3 m)).
The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, Scots: Watter o Tweid, Welsh: Tuedd), is a river 97 miles (156 km) [1] long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. Tweed cloth derives its name from its association with the River Tweed. [ 2 ]
The primary function of the dam is to provide storage of water for Tweed Shire's drinking water supply, [1] by releasing water downstream into Doon Doon Creek when levels of freshwater in the Tweed River fall below 95%, which occurs mostly in winter and spring. Otherwise the natural flows of the Tweed River provide 80% of the water needs of the ...
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Because of the large range of difficulty that exists beyond Class IV, Class V is an open-ended, multiple-level scale designated by class 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, etc. Each of these levels is an order of magnitude more difficult than the last. That is, going from Class 5.0 to Class 5.1 is a similar order of magnitude as increasing from Class IV to Class 5.0.
An atmospheric river is slamming portions of California, with multiple inches of rain expected to drench the area until the storm runs out of moisture Wednesday morning, forecasters say. According ...
As Southern California recovers from last month’s devastating wildfires, heavy rain resulted in pockets of flooding, blocked roadways and mud piling up around recent burn scars.
In the Tweed Valley the Tweed River peaked at 3.3 metres (11 ft) on 28 January, the highest level recorded in 30 years. [31] In Grafton the Clarence River peaked a new record height of 8.1 metres (27 ft). [32] Records for the river height in Grafton go back to 1839. [33] The city's levee was credited with preventing more severe flooding.