Gauging
Weir
The
stream's only purpose-built gauging weir is at Branksome Wood Road.
It
was constructed by Bournemouth Council's Drainage and Coast Protection
Team in 1995/1996 at a cost of £53,750 which included works to the
stream banks, the provision of a new timber footbridge and channel
realignment works.
The
weir is designed for a maximum discharge of 4.4m3/s (cubic metres per
second) which gives a head of 0.85m above the crest of the weir.
On
only one occasion in the last five years has the flow exceeded the
maximum it was designed for. That was
in October
2001 - 143mm of rain during the month, 36.7mm of which fell on 7th October.
On
average we experience two or three occasions annually where daily
rainfall exceeds 30mm; the highest recently recorded was 31st December
2000 (49.1mm).
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