somerset floods

• causes

  high tides and storms surged swepted up water

  rives clodder with sediment not heen dresged in 20 years
• impacts

  600 house and 16 farms flooded

  villahes cut off - distrupting work, school

  £10m damage

  power supply cut and railway cut off

  flood water contamined
• immediate respone

  media interest

  villages used boats
• long terms

  £20m flood actions plant to reduce risk

  8km flood dredged

  vulnerable communitef had flood defences

  river banks raised