Somerset Floods
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- Created on: 03-02-18 07:56
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- Somerset Floods
- Facts
- Wettest January since 1910
- Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
- River not dredged in 20 years
- Effects
- Secondary
- Stay in temporary accommodation for months
- Flood water contaminated with sewage and other chemicals
- Huge amounts of debris to be cleared
- Primary
- Local roads and Bristol to Tauton railline cut off
- 16 farms and >1000 livestock
- >600 homes flooded
- £££ 10M
- 14,000 ha flooded
- Secondary
- Responses
- Immediate
- Resuce teams and villagers used boats to travel
- Villagers and volunteers gave invaluable support
- Long-term
- March 2014 - 8km of river Tone and Parratt dereged
- Road levels raised and vulnerable villages given defences
- ££ 20M Flood action plan - Somerset County Concil
- 2024 - tidal barrage at Bridgwater
- Immediate
- Facts
- Primary
- Local roads and Bristol to Tauton railline cut off
- 16 farms and >1000 livestock
- >600 homes flooded
- £££ 10M
- 14,000 ha flooded
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