SRA Annual Report 2021-22: Langport flow station
In 2019 the Board of Somerset Rivers Authority approved an Environment Agency bid for funding for a permanent flow station in the River Parrett in Langport. In 2020, ground investigation works were completed and the flow station was designed. In 2021, it was due to be built but construction was postponed until the start of 2022 because of problems arising from the coronavirus pandemic. In January 2022, work again had to be deferred because it was not possible to move a hugely heavy piling rig on site, as the access route was too wet.
Langport flow station is now due to be built in August-September 2022. It will measure how much water is going down the Parrett from a catchment of approximately 770 square kilometres (478 square miles). Used in combination with data from existing gauges at Chiselborough, Yeovil, Donyatt and Stathe, information from Langport flow station will help to make several important systems work better – flood warning systems, for example.