SRA Annual Report 2021-22: Kingston St Mary
SRA-funded drainage improvements were installed down Lodes Lane in Kingston St Mary in April 2021. In recent years, properties in the village have flooded many times because the old Lodes Lane drainage system could not cope with the large amounts of water coming down from the Quantocks.
In 2020-21, Somerset County Council’s Highways Department made – and paid for – the necessary preparations. These included clearance, jetting, and CCTV surveying of the lane’s drainage system; identification of buried services; detailed design and specification; pre-works licences and temporary road closure orders. The SRA paid for the actual works, which accounted for the bulk of the costs of this scheme.