These include more frequent winter floods, endangered ecosystems, and increasing ground instability.
The river is very seasonal and can sometimes bring disastrous winter floods, which happened most recently in December 2008.
Could you blame a man for a summer storm, or a winter flood?
The same winter floods saw the bridge at Tenbury also swept away.
It was washed out in the winter flood of 1914.
Bridges were built, only to have them washed out in a few years from winter floods.
Prior to drainage work in the 1960s, Fairfield was regularly islanded by winter floods.
Raised walkways are set up in in winter floods.
Not five paces in front of them was a deep ravine, cut through the grassy sod by some winter flood.
A winter flood kills their only cow; many of their chickens die as well.