Tuesday, 2 June 2026

June 2026

The long Spring drought broke on the evening of the first day of meteorological summer and we had 2.5cm of rain over 24 hours. This is just as well, as a large amount of the blue-green bacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae overspilled into the brook, where it began to die off. Just the conditions when toxins can be released. Nature flushed the problem away.