Sommerset levels flood

Question 1

Somerset levels : Weather becoming more extreme in UK

Answer 1

Flooding in 2007, 2013 (Somerset Levels)in S.England due to Thames bursting its banks. 2015 Storms + rainfall floods in N.England. 2018 ‘beast from the east’

Question 2

Somerset levels : C physical

Answer 2

Low lying ground
Wettest January on record
Large storm surge
Hills and rivers flow into Sommerset levels

Question 3

Somerset levels : C Human

Answer 3

Rivers not dredged for 20 years
Farmers intensively growing maze => maze land cannot hold water => run off

Question 4

Somerset levels : Impacts Social

Answer 4

600 homes flooded
Villages such as moorland cut off
0 deaths

Question 5

Somerset levels : Impacts Economic

Answer 5

Damages £10 million
Roads closed (A361)
14000+ ha of agricultural land underwater
Insurance prices rose

Question 6

Somerset levels : Impacts Environmental

Answer 6

65Km^2 flooded
Floodwater heavily contaminated
Stagnant water re-oxygenated before pumped out

Question 7

Somerset levels : IR Pumps

Answer 7

15 pumps from Netherlands

Question 8

Somerset levels : IR Taxi

Answer 8

4x4 used as taxis to transport villagers

Question 9

Somerset levels : LTR Somerset levels flood action plan

Answer 9

20 year plan
Cost £100 million
Dredging
Raising river banks
Pumping stations

Question 10

Somerset levels : LTR Road levels`

Answer 10

Raised