Summerset
- Created by: aisling15
- Created on: 01-03-21 20:36
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- Summerset levels
- Background
- low lying region in South West England
- High water table and poor drainage
- Winter 2013-2014 prolonged flooding .
- Villages where cut off
- Roads cut off
- Animals had to be moved from 6880 hectors of land
- Physical causes
- It was at a natural risk of flooding due to impermeable clay rock and low interception levels (grass)
- Southern England received 207 mm of rainfall in January 2014. More than double expected
- There was an increase in winter storms in December 2013 - it was the stormiest December form record began
- It was one of the windiest Decembers from 1993
- Parts of southern England experienced thier highest janurary rainfall from 1910
- High tides caused floodwaters to be backed up along the levels
- Rivers where at high tide because of previous storms and lack of dredging
- Human Causes
- The River Tone and Parrett had not been dredged properly in 20 years
- This left homes and farmland with out proper defences from flooding
- Hectares of land had been left underwater from Decembers storms.
- If the river had been dredged silt would have removed making the channel wider, deep and easier to maintain
- Extra water was sent into the levels from Taunton and Bridgwater. this was part of a scheme to protect new homes built on anformed flood plaing
- The River Tone and Parrett had not been dredged properly in 20 years
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