Flooding recovery
After the flooding in November 2009 organisations, businesses and residents have worked hard to get back to normal.
Most paths have fared relatively well but a few have had to be closed because of flood damage. Please check your route in Flood-damaged paths using the interactive map.
Statistics
Windermere lake
- By morning of Thursday 19 November 2009: lake level risen by 75 cm
- By morning of Friday 20 November: water too high to measure safely. From photographs estimate it rose an extra 50-60 cm by Friday evening and then dropped down.
- By morning of Saturday 21 November: rose a further 82 cm, so 157 cm in total
In summary, the lake rose an estimated 210 cm over five days, of which around 130 cm was on the Thursday and Friday - around 36 hours.
The lake area is 17 square kilometres or 17,000,000 square metres. A cubic metre of water contains 1000 litres, so every metre rise in level adds around 17,000,000,000 litres. Over the week, therefore, an extra 35,700,000,000 lires were added, 22,100,000,000 over those 36 hours.
- Courtesy of the Freshwater Biological Association
Photography archive - how bad was it?
Here is a selection of photos from our Rangers and staff taken at the height of November's floods.
Path beside river, Elterwater, Langdale valley - 19 November
Rydal Beck - 19 November
Coniston - 19 November
Stonethwaite - 19 November
