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You may also find the current flag status of the river useful. This page tracks the level of the Isis at Friar's Wharf; Geraint Jones informs me that 15" to 20" above normal there seems to be a good match for a flooded path.
The Environment Agency has an automated level meter at the Southern end of Mesopotamia with two readings available: upstream and downstream. Once calibrated against the flooding of the path these should provide a useful warning mechanism.
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Wednesday 14 February 2024 08:07
: Iain () said:
Water 4m short of bend. 15 cm/6" deep
Tuesday 13 February 2024 10:20
: Katy () said:
Possible to wade across in size 6 wellies (3 inches from top of wellies at deepest bit). Saw cyclists going across rocking the pedals in normal-ish shoes only getting a little wet.
Tuesday 13 February 2024 08:16
: Brian (brokenn@gmail.com) said:
I made it through on a bike while wearing wellies. Doable, but it gets quite deep near the bridges.
Tuesday 13 February 2024 08:12
: Sebastian () said:
It’s gone down a bit but not much since yesterday and flooded to approx 5 meters before the bend looking from the Marston side - one brave person wading through in bear feet and shorts and a cyclist in wellies making very slow progress.
Monday 12 February 2024 08:41
: Sebastian () said:
Still flooded to the bend looking from the Marston end. Impassable on bike or foot unless you have waders or stilts
Sunday 11 February 2024 13:08
: Peter Price (peterprice@priest.com) said:
i don’t know what you lot are complaining about a little floodwater hurt nobody. i used to walk to school in waist deep floodwater in the 70s and i turned out alright. we used to be a proper country. god bless. peter x
Sunday 11 February 2024 11:49
: Carol (C.green368@btinternet.co ) said:
I wonder what that (raising the path) would cost? The council probably hasn't funds to fix a couple of potholes but if we had an idea of cost it would be a start.
Sunday 11 February 2024 10:57
: Roger Grosvenor () said:
To justify the label 'Oxford - a cycling city', surely the time has now come to raise this entire path by half a metre or more, rather than risk lives on the Plain diversion? NB I have also reported (via Fixmystreet) that the newly laid and useful track behind Lamarsh Road floods, even when nearby Oatlands Rec has not yet succumbed. Perhaps someone "high up" in Cyclox reading this could raise these issues with the relevant body/bodies?
Sunday 11 February 2024 08:56
: Katy () said:
Fully flooded now - flooded to the corner and a foot deep
Sunday 11 February 2024 07:32
: Sebastian Page (sebastian.page@hertford.ox.ac.uk) said:
Flooded to the bend.
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