Dredging will begin on the somerset Levels "as soon as it's safe to do so", a senior Environment Agency official has stated. David Rooke, executive director of flood and coastal maintenance at the agency, made the admission this morning on BBC's Today programme. Mr Rooke told the radio show: "We've still got a massive amount of water in Somerset that we are still pumping out in the largest pumping operation that we've ever undertaken. We've still got homes flooded from groundwater. And we are...
Reported by Western Morning News 2 hours ago.
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