Brighton Suburb of Bevendean Heavily Hit With Flooding

... The Week : Brighton suburb of Bevendean heavily hit with flooding There is no river anywhere near, but last week the Brighton suburb of Bevendean was drying out after a flood. Carpets, sodden furniture, washing machines and freezers were being thrown into skips, mud hosed out of houses. People knew what to do; it had happened before. Muddy water, runoff from fields planted with winter cereals, had flowed down a normally dry valley and into the houses. Four small dams meant to protect houses filled and overflowed. But much of the damaging flow resulted from a field that bypassed the dams. In this field, a gully 1.5 metre deep and several hundred metres long had been cut in the early hours of 12 October. It discharged hundreds of tons of mud into houses and roads. Bevendean, like other sites around Brighton, has a long history of flooding

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