Flooding Bellenden Road

[Mitelf]

Here that Victoria and artusi are flooded. Anyone know anything about it?

[TheCarrot]

not sure but i have heard its spreading towards the sternhall area. can anyone confirm?

[gg96cgp]

Live round the corner. No sign of flooding.

[Mitelf]

Better get out the sandbags. Know how it was caused?

[Nigello]

Artusi had a sign outside yesterday afternoon (Thursday) at about 1600 explaining that it was closed till further notice because of flooding.

[muffins78]

There was a massive downpour of rain yesterday afternoon, with thunder, lightning and hailstones! Water gushed along the street where I am and the local Chinese had flooding. Where you are talking about may have been affected by the same :(

[Penguin68]

I wonder which local park will be turned into a swimming pool to avoid this in the future - after the Herne Hill flood consequentials we are starting to run out?

[BrandNewGuy]

Although the Herne Hill flood was caused by catastrophic water main failure rather than torrential rain.

[ironjawcannon]

also yesterday they had to close Peckham Rye Station as water was cascading down the stairs. Very bad at my home too, but avoided a flood

[david_carnell]

It's businesses with cellars/basements that are worst affected, esp those that contain food/drink etc.

In addition to those listed here, Brick Brewery is also closed for the time being and the Gowlett is in a bad way too.

When they reopen help them get back on their feet and spend a few extra quid there.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Is there a reason that the water can't drain away quickly enough? Seems like a systematic floor?

[Penguin68]

Because we tend not to have this type of storm very often we do not have storm drains, but rely on the normal rainwater drainage system - this can become completely overwhelmed when you have local storms of the nature we had yesterday. It is a volume/ time issue. Around Bellenden I don't think there are enough front-gardens with parking potential for impermeable coverings to aid parking to have been real issue - but elsewhere the removal of open ground to offer soak-away can be a contributory factor. But so much water fell in such a short time that however permeable the ground there would have been flooding. Locally to me Southwark (or Thames Water) had people out only a couple of days ago sweeping gutters and clearing drains, so I don't think the problems will be necessarily a consequence of bad maintenance policies. Cities will always have problems when you get so much water falling in such a short time.

[edhistory]

http://watermaps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiyby.aspx?topic=ufmfsw#x=533914&y=175826&scale=9

[Aries]

Yep. The Vic was closed yesterday and Artusi seemed to have minimal flooding. Hope both are now open for business

[dbboy]

Just over the border and off the top end of Forest Hill Road, had flooding at the back of the house due to the drains not being capable of dealing with the amount of rain falling yesterday.

[Bellenden Belle]

Typing this whilst sitting in the Vic - clearly not that serious.

[Nigello]

Juat walking around today I've noticed a fair few grids full of leaves, twigs and general rubbish (thanks, litter bugs for the latter). It's all been pushed down the gutters towards the grids by the heavy rain but it's now just sitting there, ready to cause problems when even normal amounts of water fall. If you're reading this, James Barber, please can you get involved?