How serious is the flood risk around Meare / Westhay?
It's difficult to get a clear picture of how often / how serious flooding is in this part of the levels, if you travel in this area please let me know.

How usable Is the road (B3151) when the flood signs are out?

Whilst searching the web I noticed there was a problem at the cold harbour bridge that was meant to be fixed in 2010/11 - did this happen?

By canary2012 at 15:13 on 06/01/12

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By martinwheeler at 18:21 on 06/01/12
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While this whole area used to be underwater and large parts of the area are on natural floodplains the properties in the villages of Westhay and Meare don't suffer from flooding as most properties are built above flood level.

The B3151 between Glastonbury and Meare does however burst its banks thus making the road impassable on around one or two occasions per year (this happened a few days before Christmas in fact), although flooding only disrupts transport for a short while and the river is tidal.

With regards to Cold Harbour Bridge - although there were due to be remedial works carried out here last year I don't believe this has yet happened as the Environment Agency believed the risk was over exaggerated.

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By glastopeep at 19:04 on 06/01/12
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"If you wish to read the first link posted by Martin it doesn't work - remove the full stop after the URL when it opens" - Thanks for that, and for providing the re-posted URL.
Those of us who were strictly drilled into using correct punctuation in our youth, now have to adapt our deeply ingrained habits to the vagaries of badly written software. Innit.

By martinwheeler at 20:18 on 06/01/12
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Many thanks for the info, very helpful - just wondered, when the B3151 to Glastonbury is impassable due to temporary flooding, is the B3151 to Wedmore still open?

By canary2012 at 16:19 on 10/01/12
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