Even though the county suffered huge flooding earlier in the year, the amount of rainfall has not been enough to stop river levels from running low.
Staff from the Environment Agency went to the River Redlake at Bucknell, in Shropshire, last week and rescued around 300 brown trout.
The river, measured at Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury, is being kept around the 50cm depth level by the use of water from reservoirs in Wales and more than 100 million litres of groundwater a day. The Shropshire Groundwater Scheme is the largest groundwater regulation scheme operating in the UK. It draws groundwater storage within sandstone formations underlying North Shropshire. Water's abstracted via boreholes and discharged through buried network of pipes, either directly into Severn, or via a tributary.
"Reservoir storage in Clywedog and Vyrnwy and groundwater levels remain healthy following a very wet winter. February saw widespread flooding in the Midlands, with that month being the wettest February on record and the winter overall was the fifth wettest ever recorded. Meanwhile, April saw only 40 per cent of monthly average rainfall and that dry spell has continued in to May.
"We need to remain vigilant and adapt our management of the river in response to the extremes of weather posed by both flooding and dry weather.
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