SRA Annual Report 2025-26: Desilting structures

Somerset Council budgets allow for bridges and culverts to be desilted when there is a threat to those structures. A danger, for example, of them being damaged because of the sheer volume and weight of material built up inside and around them.

Extra SRA funding allows for desilting works that benefit both structures and the watercourses flowing through them – and nearby roads, land and properties.

One structure was desilted in 2025-26 by Somerset Council: Little Bridge in Stoke Trister.

Little Bridge, Stoke Trister, before desilting.
Little Bridge, Stoke Trister, after desilting.
Little Bridge, Stoke Trister, after SRA-funded desilting.
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