Apart from refilling the aquifers and reservoirs, and triggering a national conversation about how we really want to manage our rivers, this winter’s record rainfall has had another tangible benefit…
… providing Trout in the Town maestro Paul Gaskell with an opportunity to track the urban runoff patterns in his native Sheffield, ahead of the city’s One Big River Week, and put together this engaging little video about the true locations of some of our urban headwaters.
It’s darkly cinematic, especially now you know where most of those gurgling gutters are still running off to… but offers the very real hope of redemption by SUDS in the end!
