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Somerset's Common Works Programme 2015/16 - Q3 Progress

The Common Works Programme shows the flood risk and water management works Somerset's Flood Risk Management Authorities are doing, funded from their own budgets. The last section, labelled joint, is for projects that are joint funded, including those that SRA funds are contributing to

Flood Risk Management Authority
For removed For removed
Project Stage
Timescale for Implementation schemes - Reason for removal schemes - Further Action

Ref

  • Project Name
  • District
  • Parish
  • Description
  • Flood Risk Source
  • Progress
  • Comments/Issues

(Funder)

1. Improvement Schemes - Environment Agency Joint Programme of Work attracting either Government Grant in Aid or Local Levy (WRFCC) funding

(see map for EA schemes) www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/about-us/board-and-partners/board-meetings-and-papers/?entryid108=97703

Initial site visit has taken place. Works are ongoing

Carry out repairs to defence wall and reinstate flood bank to defence level
EA 1 EA 1 EA 2 EA 3
Brue Glastonbury to Cripps Brue Glastonbury to Cripps North Drain

  • Mendip
  • Wedmore

Wedmore Burtle

  • Design
  • EA

EA EA

  • Main River
  • 2015-16

2015-16 2015-16 2015-16

G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Picked up on IDB Enhanced maintenance programme

  • Mendip
  • Desilt and pull banks on River Brue
  • Main River

R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16 by
EA
None

None
This work is being carried out by MEICA

Lewis Drove Tilting Weir - Gate major mechanical maintenance, repair motor and gearbox

  • Mendip
  • Main River

G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Funding for specialist asset surveys cut

  • Burnham - Highbridge Clyce
  • Sedgemoor
  • Burnham on Sea andSpecialist asset survey
  • Construction EA
  • Main Rivers and Sea

R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16 by
EA
G = on course for delivery in 15/16

EA 3 EA 4
Burnham - Highbridge Clyce Burnham - Huntspill Sluice
Sedgemoor Sedgemoor

  • Burnham on Sea andReplace Mechanical components
  • Design

Design
EA EA
Main Rivers and Sea Main Rivers and Sea
2015-16 2015-16
Outfall - 2 x tidal flaps and 4x vertical gates major mechanical
West Huntspill

East Brent

G = on course for delivery in 15/16

maintenance

This was a legacy project based on old data held in an asset database. This work has Following a cleansing exercise, been reviewed evidence suggests that in the past a and is no number of projects were identified longer

  • EA 5
  • Axe Lower
  • Sedgemoor
  • Reprofile bank slips

EA

  • Main River
  • 2015-16

  • R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16
  • with little or no substance.
  • necessary.

None

None None None None
Completed within existing works

EA 6 EA 7 EA 7 EA 7
Tone Villages River Cam River Cam River Cam

  • Taunton Deane
  • Bishops Hull
  • Bank repairs to cover piles and repair rabbit holes

Froglane West Camel stone pitching West Camel FAS Throttle Structure West Camel flap valves
EA EA EA EA
Main River Main River Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16 2015-16 2015-16

  • B = Complete
  • programme

Completed within existing works

South Somerset West Camel South Somerset West Camel South Somerset West Camel

  • B = Complete
  • programme

Completed within existing works

  • B = Complete
  • programme

Completed within existing works

  • B = Complete
  • programme

PCI production, carry out works in Feb2015

EA 8 EA 8
Tone - Taunton to Bradford Tone - Taunton to Bradford
Taunton Deane Taunton Deane

  • Cheddon Fitzpaine Children's Wood stone revetment
  • Design

Design
EA EA
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Not needed - additional telemetry in place

  • Taunton
  • Replacement of gauge boards x 8

Abbey Mill Bridge 1 every 2 years

R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16
G = on course for delivery in 15/16 G = on course for delivery in 15/16
None

Washford River - General Bridge Inspections
EA 9 EA 9
West Somerset West Somerset
Old Cleeve Old Cleeve
Design Design
EA EA
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

In bridges programme for inspection In bridges programme for inspection

Washford River - General Bridge Inspections
For Bye Farm and Watersmeet 1 every 2 years. Query over ownership of both bridges.

Captured in overall EA
This work will still be delivered but culvert

  • EA 9
  • Washford River
  • West Somerset

West Somerset
Deformed culvert with fracture Inspection of culvert
EA EA
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

under a larger generic "Culvert Inspection" project inspection

  • project
  • R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16

R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/17
None None
Captured in overall EA
This work will still be delivered but culvert

EA 10 Minehead to Blue Anchor Coast

under a larger generic "Culvert Inspection" project inspection project

Flood Risk Management Authority
For removed For removed
Project Stage
Timescale for Implementation schemes - Reason for removal schemes - Further Action

Ref

  • Project Name
  • District
  • Parish
  • Description
  • Flood Risk Source
  • Progress
  • Comments/Issues

(Funder)

Works on site with expectation that they will be complete before mid November Local resident would like a tree catcher upstream but we are not sure that this is practicle and we are proposing to review what minor works we can do to reduce flood risk for Dulverton

  • EA 11 Westford Reservoir
  • Taunton Deane

West Somerset
Wellington Dulverton
Section 10 Improvements Tree Catcher

  • Design
  • EA

EA
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

G = on course for delivery in 15/16

EA 12 River Barle – Dulverton

Appraisal

G = on course for delivery in 15/16
This was a legacy project based on old data held in an asset database. Following a cleansing exercise,

  • EA 13 Mark Yeo - Whitehouse Pumping Station
  • Sedgemoor
  • Stone out compound
  • EA
  • Main River
  • 2015-16

evidence suggests that in the past a number of projects were identified Work no longer
R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16
G = on course for delivery in 15/16

  • with little or no substance.
  • required
  • None

None

EA 13 Mark Yeo - Stook House Sluice EA 14 Stanmoor Pumping Station S

  • Sedgemoor
  • East Brent
  • Gate - major mechanical maintenance
  • Design

Design
EA EA
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

  • B = Completed within existing works
  • MEICA have completed

Work based on repetitive maintenance schedule - inspection has resulted in planned work not needed.

  • Taunton Deane
  • Burrowbridge
  • Flood Defence (Diesel Pump) Replace 2 pump starters

  • EA 15 Burnham - Brean Cross Sluice
  • Sedgemoor
  • Refurbish tidal flap 2 painting
  • EA
  • Main Rivers and Sea
  • 2015-16

Work no longer

  • required
  • R = no longer proposed for delivery in 15/16

Cheddar Yeo Lower - Cross Moor Pumping Station

  • EA 16
  • Sedgemoor

Sedgemoor Sedgemoor
Compton Bishop Compton Bishop East Huntspill
Replace 2 x pressure transducers Reprofile bank slips
Design Design Design
EA EA EA
Main River Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16 2015-16

G = on course for delivery in 15/16 G = on course for delivery in 15/16

EA 16 Cheddar Yeo Lower
Brue Cripps to Tidal Limit - Hackness
EA 17
Sluice
Replace 2 hydrostatic and 2 ultrasonic level instruments

G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Works on site, with expectation that all will be complete before mid November

EA 18 Curry Moor Reservoir EA 18 Curry Moor
Taunton Deane Taunton Deane Taunton Deane
Burrowbridge Burrowbridge Taunton
Section 10 Improvements Pumping Station Improvements French Weir Remedials
Construction EA Construction EA
Main River Main River Main River
2015-16

G = on course for delivery in 15/16

  • G = on course for delivery in 15/16
  • In progress

2015-2016 2015-16

G = appraisal element of project on course for delivery in 15/16
Tender will be awarded in two weeks. Works due to start Feb 2017 Tender will be awarded in two weeks

  • EA 19 River Tone
  • Appraisal

Design
EA EA EA
EA 20 Cannington Flood Defence Scheme EA 21 Bruton Reservoir

  • Sedgemoor
  • Cannington
  • Construction of Flood Alleviation Scheme

Section 10 Improvements
Main River Main River
2015-16 2015-16

A = Delayed but recoverable
Works substantially complete with minor works left to complete On course for delivery. Project to go to EA Project Appraisal Board for funding for appraisal stage. Replenishment works to Stolford shingle ridge have been carried out in August.

  • South Somerset Bruton
  • Design

G = on course for delivery in 15/16

  • EA 23 Stolford Flood Defence Scheme
  • West Somerset

Sedgemoor

  • Otterhampton
  • Maintenace of existing scheme
  • Design
  • EA
  • Sea
  • 2015-18

G = on course for delivery in 15/16 G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Public opening on 30/09/2015. Ncpms project completed, managed in future by SWT. Handover of HandS File to Area pending.

  • EA 24 Steart Coastal Management Project
  • Otterhampton

Cannington

  • Ongoing worked linked to Steart project
  • maintenance EA
  • Main River and Sea
  • 2015-19

EA 27 River Frome Scheme EA 28 Parrett Estuary EA 29 Henley Sluice

  • Mendip
  • Improvements (Wallbridge)

Cannington Bends
Appraisal Design
EA EA EA

  • Main River
  • 2016-17

2016-18 2018-19

  • Sedgemoor
  • Main Rivers and Sea

  • Main River
  • South Somerset High Ham
  • Appraisal

Works very nearly completed. Now in 12 month defect period with only a few minor snagging items to sort.

  • EA 30 Saltmoor Pumping Station
  • Taunton Deane
  • Improvements
  • Appraisal
  • EA
  • Main River
  • 2018-2019

G = on course for delivery in 15/16

EA 31 Dunball Sluice EA 32 Roadwater EA 33 Taunton

  • Sedgemoor
  • Puriton
  • Gates Refurbishment

Improvements
Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal
EA EA EA
Main Rivers and Sea Main River
2018-19 2018-19 2020-21
West Somerset Taunton Deane
Old Cleeve

  • Cheddon Fitzpaine Flood Alleviation Improvements
  • Main River

Accelerated scheme - funding over 5 years from 2015 onwards. Design underway Accelerated scheme - funding over 5 years from 2015 onwards. Design underway Accelerated scheme - funding over 5 years from 2015 onwards. Design underway

EA 34 West Sedgemoor Pumping Station EA 35 Gold Corner Pumping Station EA 36 Williton
South Somerset Sedgemoor

  • Improvements
  • Appraisal

Appraisal Appraisal
EA EA EA
Main River Main River Main River
2020-21 2020-21 2020-21

G = on course for delivery in 15/16 G = on course for delivery in 15/17

Improvements

  • West Somerset
  • Flood Defences Scheme

Provisional Scheme

EA 37 Parrett at Langport Right Bank EA 38 Westmoor and Southmoor
South Somerset Mendip
Asset Improvements Asset Improvements
Appraisal Appraisal
EA EA
Main River Main River
2018-19 2019-

Provisional Scheme

Flood Risk Management Authority
For removed For removed
Project Stage
Timescale for Implementation schemes - Reason for removal schemes - Further Action

Ref

  • Project Name
  • District
  • Parish
  • Description
  • Flood Risk Source
  • Progress
  • Comments/Issues

(Funder)

Provisional Scheme

  • EA 39 Parrett Left Bank Langport Thorney
  • South Somerset
  • Asset Improvements

Asset Improvements
Appraisal Appraisal
EA EA
Main River Main River
2019- 2019-
Sedgemoor & South Somerset

EA 40 King’s Sedgemoor Drain

Provisional Scheme Do not appear on accompanying map - Somerset wide work (impossible to show on map)

Bridge inspections onm EA owned bridges to comply with legislation

  • EA 41 Bridge Maintenance Programme (Wessex)
  • Various
  • maintenance EA
  • Main Rivers
  • 2015-21

G = on course for delivery in 15/21

Heavily Modified Water Bodies are at risk of failing to meet Good Ecological Status due to modifications to their hydromorphology. Mitigation measures are required to improve the ecology to Good Ecological Potential without altering the original purpose of the modification i.e. flood defence, land drainage or abstraction. In Wessex Area there is funding to implement mitigation measures where waterbodies are in protected areas, the majority are in the Somerset Levels and Moors.
Water Level Management Plan Heavily
EA 42 Modified Water Body (Water Framework
Directive) Mitigation Measures (Wessex)

  • Appraisal
  • EA
  • Main River
  • 2015-21

Do not appear on accompanying map- Somerset wide work

  • (impossible to show on map)
  • G = on course for delivery in 15/21

Westmoor Favourable Condition (Raised

  • EA 43
  • Mendip
  • Appraisal

Appraisal
EA EA
Main River Main River
2016-17 2016-18

G = on course for delivery in 15/16 G = on course for delivery in 16/18
Work starts w/c 28/09/2015 Out to tender

Water Level Areas remedial)

  • EA 44 River Brue
  • Fish Passage Improvements

Parts ordered, constructed and delivered. Constuction phase imminent.

Allows better control of water levels which can either gravitate or be pumped

  • EA 45 Repairs to sluice - River Penzoy
  • Sedgemoor
  • Westonzoyland
  • Design
  • EA
  • Main River
  • 2015-16

B = Complete

  • G = on course for delivery in 15/16
  • Work to start w/c 5/11/2015

EA 46 Elsons Clyse Outfall Repair EA 47 Pumping Station weedscreen
Sedgemoor Sedgemoor
North Petherton Lympsham
Excludes tidal ingress from the River Parrett Improves pump station effectiveness

  • Design
  • EA

EA
Main River Main River
2015-16

  • 2015-16
  • Appraisal

  • G = on course for delivery in 15/16
  • Civil work required (pile sheeting)

2. Improvement Schemes - Internal Drainage Boards attracting either Grant in Aid or other external grants

(see map for IDB schemes) www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/about-us/board-and-partners/board-meetings-and-papers/?entryid108=97703

A = delayed but recoverable
G = on course for delivery in 15/16
Investigations ongoing work ongoing

  • IDB 1
  • Minehead investigations & improvements
  • West Somerset
  • Investigation into improvement works
  • Parrett IDB
  • Lowland channel

Lowland channel
2015-16

  • 2015-16
  • IDB 2
  • East and West Waste
  • Mendip
  • Improvements to water level control structures
  • Axe / Brue IDB

3. Improvement Schemes - Internal Drainage Boards funded internally

  • A = delayed but recoverable
  • work ongoing

Old R Axe outfall & Biddisham Lane screen complete

  • IDB 3
  • East Brent Church Road
  • Sedgemoor
  • Urban drainage improvements

Drainage improvements
Axe / Brue IDB Axe / Brue IDB
Lowland channel Lowland channel
2015-16

  • 2015-16
  • IDB 4
  • Biddisham drainage improvements
  • Sedgemoor

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    www.u3ahighbridge.org.uk Issue 102 Sep/Oct 2018 2 Your Committee Position Name Tel* Chairman Vour Orchard 788984 Vice-Chairman Rod Downing 256895 Secretary Janet Preddy 783743 Assistant to Secretary Audrey Downing 256895 Treasurer Alison Joyce 784633 Membership Secretary Barry Ede 07779 Committee Members Philip Buoy 783647 Carole Loveridge 780060 Pete Manning 780203 Barbara Croker 780260 Bernard Martin 787230 * Prefix all (non-mobile) telephone numbers with STD code 01278. Website: http://www.u3ahighbridge.org.uk Webmaster: Darryl Knight-Rees Magazine Editors: Darryl & Linda Knight-Rees (phone: 01278 783081, email: [email protected]) Printed By: Darryl Knight-Rees Distribution: Ann Smith (West Huntspill), Fay Burston, Mary Akers, Chris Winter, Oliver Cox, Thelma Tripp, Marion Wright and all who give a hand! Next Magazine Deadline: October 29th 2018 Copyright © U.3.A. of Highbridge. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be repro- duced by any means without the prior permission of the copyright holders. The publishers can- not accept responsibility for any unsolicited material or for the views of contributors. Note: In accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, information relating to all of the U3A of Highbridge’s members will be held on a computerised database and will be used solely for the U3A of Highbridge’s business and communications. 3 Chairman’s Message Hello, everyone. My, what a summer we have had! It’s been quite Mediterranean! I must confess I was glad to see some rain, if only to spare me all the watering of the garden. You may have noticed our committee members are now sporting identity tags.
  • Foreword to the Draft Queen Camel Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2030

    Foreword to the Draft Queen Camel Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2030

    Foreword to the Draft Queen Camel Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2030 I have pleasure in commending this Neighbourhood Plan covering the development of the village in the period to 2030. The Plan, when adopted, will form part of a hierarchy of plans at local levels within the National Planning Policy Framework. The NPPF provides a strict framework for developing plans, particularly on housing, which we have carefully observed. Taking this Plan through its remaining stages so that it can be a final approved Neighbourhood Plan to support all that we want is a very significant step for the village. The remaining steps are as follows; • Submission of the plan to South Somerset District Council (SSDC) for examination • Final revision of the plan before submission to the parish for approval by referendum • When approved by referendum, the Neighbourhood Plan is formally adopted. The background to the process to develop the plan is set out in the detailed sections which follow. I would emphasise that a very detailed analysis of the wishes of the village, covering in particular the housing needs and the availability of land for development, has been made by the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group of the Parish Council (NPSG) along with the Parish Council itself and its advisor from Dorset Planning Consultant Limited and South Somerset District Council. Therefore do read the policies and the background to them thoroughly as a lot of careful analysis of what could be appropriate for the village is described in this document. The Parish Council have carefully considered the range of comments that were made on the draft plan and made some changes as a result.
  • A303 SPARKFORD to ILCHESTER This Material May Not Be Copied, Distributed, Sold Or Published Without the Formal Permission of Land Registry

    A303 SPARKFORD to ILCHESTER This Material May Not Be Copied, Distributed, Sold Or Published Without the Formal Permission of Land Registry

    14 Ferndale Hill 49.8m MP 133.5 Pond Farm Tar-Wen 21.4m CG Saumerez Wolverlands 29.6m 23.5m CG Broadway 10 STEART LANE 1.83m RH 1.83m RH Ward Bdy 4 46.8m Pond 24.0m Ty-Llawen Pond Tennis Court Bower's Farm Def New (Track) 1.83m RH 26.7m Close Wrong-thorn 1.83m RH BILL'S LANE Steart 21.5m 26.4m 1 Playing Field 44.6m 5 28.8m 27.9m 26.9m Track Woodlands Farm 25.7m 1 Pond NIGHTINGALE LANE 4 Pond Ward Bdy Track 28.9m CS 24.7m ED and Ward Bdy 41.0m Issues Track Pond GP 27.4m 1.83m RH Camel Leas 26.1m 26.6m Pond 1.83m RH Def Nightingale Cottage Ward Bdy Pond Def 20 Manor Drain Woodside Villa Farm Lay-by Drain Cottage Ward Bdy Woodlands 49.8m Fortyacres Farm 29.9m GP Sparkford Wood Def 32.0m FB Def 33.8m Ponds 50.6m FB Woodgate Cottage Ponds Ward Bdy 1.83m RH SPARKFORD ROAD Pond Pond River Cary Track ED & Ward Bdy Track MP 133.75 Newhaven Pond 21.0m 1.83m RH 54.3m Track 37.2m 49.1m Lay-by Drain STEART LANE Def Pond Sluice 19.5m Pond Pond 53.4m Pond Pumping Station Issues Pond Tank 1.83m RH Pond Pond Forty Acre Copse Pond River Cary 1.83m RH Upper Wood RAG LANE (Track) Dairy House Issues 1.83m RH Pond Trackside Farm 1.83m RH Woodside Court 45.3m Def Weir 23.3m Westacre FB Ward Bdy Ppg Sta Def Issues Pond 50.8m Drain Pond Issues Pump 17.3m Cary Fitzpaine House 45.8m 1.83m RH Cistern Drain The Chestnuts 1.83m RH Pond Pond MS Ward Bdy 1.83m RH Drain Pond 1.83m RH Cary The Old Cottage Stables ESS Middle Barn Pond FB Issues 47.0m West Side Barn Pond Woodside Farm Silos WB Garden Cottage MP 134 Haynes Motor Pond The Rookery Bampfylde Museum A 37 5 Two
  • Somerset Flood Risk Management Common Works Programme 2015/16

    Somerset Flood Risk Management Common Works Programme 2015/16

    SOMERSET FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT COMMON WORKS PROGRAMME 2015/16 A) Background Following its establishment on 31st January 2015, the Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) is committed to preparing a Common Works Programme (CWP), which will be updated annually. The CWP encompass all Flood Risk Management Authorities (FRMAs) in Somerset, and covers all inland flood risk management improvement schemes and maintenance works. It sets out information on schemes being undertaken using funding available to FRMAs through their conventional spending programmes, but also includes schemes and works being delivered using additional funding made available to the SRA. It includes: All capital schemes however funded; The established maintenance programmes of the Environment Agency, and Internal Drainage Boards; the Enhanced Maintenance Programme - for details, see: www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/about-us/board-and- partners/board-meetings-and-papers/?entryid108=97700 Relevant programmes of Somerset County Council (SCC) as Lead Local Flood Authority and Highways Authority; District Council and Water Company schemes. B) Purpose 1. To share information with local communities and businesses about the schemes and works being undertaken; 2. To provide a basis for co-ordinating the planning and implementation of schemes, including developing efficiencies for joint delivery, and reporting on progress. C) Change The CWP will be updated to take account of issues that emerge during the course of the year, and may be subject to change, reflecting the ability to respond to needs and opportunities, and the availability of funding, as they arise. D) Prioritisation The CWP seeks to focus resources in areas where there is the greatest need, and where investment will bring the greatest benefits.