Somerset Rivers Authority is to mark the successful completion of 2.2km of maintenance dredging along the River Parrett – by following on with 750 metres of new dredging. The Parrett Internal Drainage Board and the Environment Agency have worked as SRA partners to make sure that dredging continues as efficiently as possible, with only a break for Easter and site and compound handovers. Full story: Read more
SOMERSET RIVERS AUTHORITY BOARD APPROVES NEW DREDGING
A fresh round of dredging on the River Parrett will begin in the New Year, after the Board of the Somerset Rivers Authority agreed to target a stretch between Northmoor and the M5. Following on from the dredging of 8km of the Parrett and Tone in 2014, the SRA has picked out 0.75km between Northmoor pumping station and the motorway bridge for a £2.14m scheme to protect people and property and reduce the severity, extent and duration of future flooding. Full story: Read more
EXASPERATED FLOOD VICTIMS RAISE CONCERNS WITH PROSPECTIVE MP
Just like the water, feelings are running high amongst people in the Burrowbridge area as they face the trial of living with floods for the second year running. An anxious group of worried locals gathered at the marooned pub, The King Alfred on the swollen banks of the River Parrett, to voice their feelings of helplessness to Rebecca Pow, Prospective MP for Taunton Deane, the first politician who has ventured near them. Full Story: Read More