About the SRA End of Year Report 2015-16
The Somerset Rivers Authority End of Year Report 2015-16 was produced primarily for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
It was sent first to Government ministers in Defra and the Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG) on 21 June, 2016.
Defra gave £1.9million of interim funding for Somerset Rivers Authority’s first year of existence (2015-16). In 2014, DCLG put £366,000 towards Somerset’s 20 Year Flood Action Plan and helped set up the SRA. So these departments were naturally interested in what the SRA had achieved during its first year.
Get a PDF of the SRA End of Year Report 2015-16.
Sections of the SRA End of Year Report 2015-16
Below, links in blue will take you to different sections of the report.
The report includes:
Introduction
Read the Introduction to the SRA End of Year Report 2015-16
Part 1: Financial Analysis
Read the Financial Analysis in the SRA End of Year report 2015-16
Part 2: Somerset Rivers Authority’s Enhanced Maintenance Programme of works in 2015/16
Part 2 covers:
Dredging and river management
Pioneer dredging: high level carriers
Pioneer dredging: low land carriers
Monitoring silt build-up (yearly survey)
Maintaining newly dredged profiles (year 1 of 4-year cycle)
Removal of vegetation and/or sediment removal – viewed rhynes and main river
Step change in encouraging and enforcing riparian work
Other flood risk management measures
Local flood risk management measures
Schemes added 2015-16