SRA Annual Report 2024-25: Division Rhyne desilting
Responding to prolonged flooding over the winter of 2023-24, the SRA gave Godney Parish Council a grant for reshaping 4.8 kilometres (3 miles) of the northern bank of Division Rhyne (work pictured below).
The council was concerned about water levels in this rhyne staying persistently above the outlet clappers in bordering fields, thereby making it impossible for water in these fields to drain into the rhyne.
In a bid to remedy this situation, the council got an emergency permit from the Environment Agency and hired a contractor to take silt from the centre of the rhyne and put it on the northern bank, from a point about 200 metres east of the Godney to Glastonbury road to the rhyne’s confluence with the River Brue.
The council has told the SRA that it would like more Brue catchment works to be done, of the kinds being assessed using the SRA’s River Brue modelling, so the benefits of this Division Rhyne project may be even more fully realised.