Water

•   Ground Water Streams

  By definition, ground water is rather hard to get at and experience!

  However it is a marvel to behold where it emerges as pure clear water from springlines at the surface, places in The Living Coast such as:

  Fulking to Woods Mill stream, emerges by the Shepherd & Dog pub

  Lewes Winterbourne stream, flowing through Lewes Railway Land
  
  Wellesbourne stream in central Brighton, buried beneath the Valley Gardens for over a hundred years!

•   ​Forms of Flooding

  

  Flood risk takes varied forms in The Living Coast, ranked in the top ten most vulnerable places nationally:

  Surface water - "muddy flooding" runoff from the Downs and over urban surfaces, e.g. at Bevendean

  Ground water - rising up from the chalk aquifer in wet winters, e.g. at Patcham

  River water - spreading over the floodplains of the Adur and especially the Ouse river in winter

  Coastal & Tidal - exacerbated by high spring tides, storm surges and rising sea levels