What We Do
Witney River Sensors Project
Innovative efforts to better understand how the River Windrush behaves during floods are under way in Witney. Witney Flood Group, now a registered charity and an action group formed after the 2020 floods recently secured funding from Oxfordshire County Council, with additional support from West Oxfordshire District Council to install advanced river monitoring systems using Internet of Things technology. This will help us study and understand the way the river through central Witney behaves under flood conditions.
Flood Risk
Thanks to the funding, a network of remote river level sensors mounted on new gauge boards has been set up at seven key locations, with more planned in future. These include Woodford Mill (upstream and downstream along the mill race), Riverside Gardens, Riverside House (upstream of the town bridge), downstream of the town bridge and two critical points at Langel Common. These sensors are now live, available to anyone, and are designed to measure high river levels and provide critical data on flow behaviour around obstructions such as weirs and bridges.