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The Environment Agency (EA) issued a flood warning for Landford to Wade Bridge on the River Blackwater, and alerts for areas including Lymington River, Mansbridge and Riverside Park, Monks Brook ...
A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States . The term is used in fluvial studies, geology , geography , ecology , and biology .
The river (known here as Heybridge Creek) was dammed between Heybridge Hall and Potman marsh in 1954 as part of a programme of flood defence improvements. Most of the water flowing down the River Blackwater nowadays flows over a weir at Beeleigh and along the tidal section of the Chelmer before rejoining the Blackwater at Heybridge Basin.
The Blackwater River is a true blackwater river.Its water is clear, dark, slightly acidic, and tannin stained. Its drainage basin contains many swamps.The river's flood plain is mostly forested and swampy, including bald cypress and tupelo swamp forests.
The proposal involved damming the Blackwater River with consequent flooding of about 8,000 acres (32 km 2), including all of the wetland — roughly 25% of the Valley floor. Public objections were raised and, in the midst of the furor, the Valley was designated a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in December 1974.
Enough rain may fall at a highly local level to trigger urban flooding and perhaps even flash flooding of small streams in a few cases. GET THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APP. ... River, lake and reservoir ...
The seasonal flood-control reservoir created by the dam has a maximum capacity of 93,400 acre-feet (120 million cubic meters), but is normally dry, apart from the normal flow of the Blackwater. The site includes 8 miles (13 km) of river popular for canoeing and kayaking, and fishing for brown and rainbow trout.
The Blackwater River of Florida is a 56.6-mile-long (91.1 km) [3] river rising in southern Alabama and flowing through the Florida Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico.The river enters Florida in Okaloosa County and flows through Santa Rosa County to Blackwater Bay, an arm of Pensacola Bay.