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Somerset 65 million m3 of flood water covered 63 km2 - Coggle Diagram
Somerset
65 million m3 of flood water covered 63 km2
Landscape
Local Management
Environmental Agencies
60 pumps working 24 hours a day and removed 1.5 tones of water some of these pumps where taken form the Netherlands
Emergency Support
royal marines helped patrol and keep the area locked down and secure and make sure everyone was safe the police also increased there patrol.
Defenses
50 main defense systems in disparate need of repair including embankment pumps and costal defenses.
Future
They have set back up to have the river Parret dredged regularly they have also widened and deepened it and famer and now payed to store any flood water in the case of another bad flood. They also made big efforts to stop the surface runoff into the housing development.
Causes
Physical
Long rainfall and tidal surges made the situation worse
There was twelve major storms between December 2013 and mid-February 2014
These built the water levels up substantially.
Powerful jet streams of low-pressure rain and storms powered in from the Atlantic.
Human
The river Parret hadn't been dredged for 20 years. Even though farmers had warned the government that this would happen if they didn't dredge it the river. Also the built houses and urbanized and are of a flood plane in which a lot of it was under waters. They also could have made the river wider and deeper even if they didn't dredge it. and before the 20 years it used to get dredged every 5 years costing 4m
Impacts
Social
When this happened it cut of people from homes road and exits from their area.
A total of 600 homes where effected.
Economic
Somerset lost between 82 million and 142 million
Farmers had to sell cattle and farm animals to quickly to make money and to protect them meaning they made huge losses.
Some businesses made huge losses. In both trade and property.
Environmental
There was said to be very little effect of wildlife.
Also 7000 hectares of land where destroyed by the flood.
National Management