Flooding on Somerset Levels.

[oldgit]

Bit early to tell perhaps. ?
Mentioned on R4 this morning.Rivers and drains on the Somerset Levels are getting near to being high enough to cause flooding.

Thought that all that dredging the locals demanded was going to solve this problem.

 

[chanelyacht]

Bit early to tell perhaps. ?
Mentioned on R4 this morning.Rivers and drains on the Somerset Levels are getting near to being high enough to cause flooding.

Thought that all that dredging the locals demanded was going to solve this problem.

I think it's the difference between land and property flooding. You'll never keep the levels dry, that's why they are...er..the levels...

 

[[70521]]

And the Dawlish sea wall is begining to break up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-30040238

Met Office reporting 95 MPH winds on Berry Head.

 

[sarabande]

having eliminated the old River Boards in 1974, and their long term staff who knew exactly how to manage the rivers and keep the rhynes (ditches) clean, in favour of the Environ-mental Agency which sold off large tracts to twitchers, Somerset County Council is now creating the Somerset Rivers Authority.


A mere (geddit ?) £2.7 million just to start the organisation in 2015, "to reduce the likelihood, duration and impact of flooding in the county”.

Form an orderly queue for the handouts...public consultancy meetings... public engagement conferences... research grants... GIS and infrastructure models... community objectives evenings... project identification documents... strategic flood response plans, tasks, exercises.. wide area resilient radio comms networks... new uniforms and identification badges...

 

[Chris_d]

having eliminated the old River Boards in 1974, and their long term staff who knew exactly how to manage the rivers and keep the rhynes (ditches) clean, in favour of the Environ-mental Agency which sold off large tracts to twitchers, Somerset County Council is now creating the Somerset Rivers Authority.


A mere (geddit ?) £2.7 million just to start the organisation in 2015, "to reduce the likelihood, duration and impact of flooding in the county”.

Form an orderly queue for the handouts...public consultancy meetings... public engagement conferences... research grants... GIS and infrastructure models... community objectives evenings... project identification documents... strategic flood response plans, tasks, exercises.. wide area resilient radio comms networks... new uniforms and identification badges...

Thats probably why they got rid of the Rivers Boards in 1974, give it another 40 years

 

[Border Terrier]

But the levels have been flooding since the days on the Saxon kings. And there was time that Glastonbury was a seaside resort. Why not learn from history?

 

[Dipper]

And the Dawlish sea wall is begining to break up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-30040238

Met Office reporting 95 MPH winds on Berry Head.

That cyclist was trying for an early Darwin Award.

 

[Saguday]

But the levels have been flooding since the days on the Saxon kings. And there was time that Glastonbury was a seaside resort. Why not learn from history?

Well, where do I start...

Over the course of about 1000 years or so the Levels have been drained as a result of conscious human activity. They are a man-made and man-maintained environment. Even into recent times some parts are deliberately allowed to flood but nonetheless it remains that many farms and villages on the Levels have *not* been flooded since they were built, many in the 19th century, until last year.

The lesson to be learnt from history is that if the maintenance of the rhymes and rivers had been maintained in recent times as they had been over the last few hundred there would not have been the devastating floods we saw last year.

I live on the edge of the Levels and tried to do my bit to help as best I could last year. I hope I don't have to do it again.