A very different view of my favourite reservoir here in Greenfield near my home in Oldham. After a year of fires and drought the reservoir is at an all-time low of water. In all my life of visiting here (55yrs at least) I have never seen it like this. I am stood some 400mts from the water intake but the river here is at least 50 ft below what it normally is, and that grows to some 100ft just some short distance down. As I stood here, after some torrential rain there were even boulders rolling along with the current and the sides were still crumbling into the water (the black peat water banks here are about 2mts high), I then made a hasty retreat back to the grass and trees above -where the water normally stands.
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