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The 2012 Great Britain and Ireland floods had brought severe flooding to the Somerset Levels. During December 2013 and January 2014 heavy rainfall led to extensive flooding on the Somerset Levels with over 600 houses and 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of agricultural land, including North Moor , Curry and Hay Moors and Greylake , affected.
Around 70% of deep peat in the Somerset Levels and Moors is likely to be losing carbon due to intensive livestock grazing, cultivation and direct extraction. Maize cultivation has increased, and most soils under maize were damaged to the extent that rainfall is unable to penetrate the upper soil layers, resulting in silt-laden runoff.
The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue. The Mendip Hills separate the Somerset Levels from the North Somerset Levels. The Somerset Levels consist of marine clay "levels ...
The many bodies responsible for small parts of Somerset's flood defences were swept away, and replaced by the Somerset Catchment Board. More importantly, perhaps, they did not have to prove that benefits would occur to a particular community in order to issue rates for drainage work, but could raise rates based on the rateable values of properties.
This category groups together articles relating to the Somerset Levels, England. Pages in category "Somerset Levels" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
The Levels and Moors include 32 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (twelve of them also Special Protection Areas), the Huntspill River [200] and Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserves, [201] the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar Site covering about 86,000 acres (348 km 2), [197] the Somerset Levels National Nature Reserve, [202] Shapwick ...
The North Somerset Levels basin, north of the Mendips, covers a smaller geographical area than the Somerset Levels; and forms a coastal area around Avonmouth. It too was reclaimed by draining. [65] [66] It is mirrored, across the Severn Estuary, in Wales, by a similar low-lying area: the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels. [66]
UK Floods-Case studies of causes and effects and flooding policies, Boscastle Flood- 16 August 2004 (subscription required) 50°41′26″N 4°41′42″W / 50.69044°N 4.69505°W / 50.69044; -4