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View From Track Of Black Membranes Fixed On Banks Near A Water Control Structure On Westmoor That Needs Improvement Works.

39 steps to better water control

Membranes have been fitted for Somerset Rivers Authority near 39 water control structures at Moorlinch and Westmoor on the Somerset Levels. The membranes will - temporarily - stop vegetation growing and deter water voles, so the structures can be improved later this summer.
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Tractor And Sward Slitter In Action On Field In Exmoor In Somerset With Grassland Showing Results Of Efforts To Aerate Soil And Improve Infiltration Of Water.

Farmers bid online for Somerset flood works

Farmers across Somerset made well over 100 bids in the county’s biggest auction yet for works to help stop flooding. The auction ran online in the second half of March. Somerset Rivers Authority, the Environment Agency and the Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group SouthWest offered farmers a choice of up to seven different methods of natural flood management. Bids are now being checked.
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River Parrett In Summer With Swan Of Water And View Of Langport Including Church Tower

How should Wedmore and Langport adapt to climate change?

  • 17th January 2020
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People living in and around Wedmore and Langport are invited to take part in a major new Somerset climate change project called Adapting the Levels. Come to the Ridgway Hall in Langport between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 29 February. Children and young people are welcome to attend. A similar event in Wedmore at the start of February was a popular success.
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