Somerset IDBs @IDBengineer
News from the Somerset IDB engineering team - tweets by Iain, Rob & Phil - managing water levels and reducing flood risk in Somerset somersetdrainageboards.gov.uk Somerset Joined January 2012-
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Installing a new #waterlevels telemetry station on Bowmead Drove, Wet Moor @IDBsomerset #waterlevelmanagement #apprenticeship
Field teams were out clearing surface weed at Hixham Rhyne to improve water quality. @IDBengineer @Northlevelidb @EnvAgencySW
Thanks @lovethelevels It's been good working with @IDBengineer @EnvAgencySW on this project. Many benefits should quickly result.
Thanks @lovethelevels It's been good working with @IDBengineer @EnvAgencySW on this project. Many benefits should quickly result.
#Somerset high tide watch, monitoring a significant leak at West Clyse, Pawlett Hams #waterlevels video
Thank you to all our IDB Members and District Councillors who attended our tour of the Axe Brue IDB drainage... fb.me/54GHtXlpn
Axe Brue IDB inspecting the new @IDBsomerset Old River Axe Outfall: helping protect rural communities in #Somerset from flooding
All credit to those managing water levels on the world-class #SomersetLevels #wetlands during these dry times @waterlevels @EnvAgencySW
Counting eels & elvers at Geylake Sluice #SomersetLevels #monitoring #wetlands @lovethelevels @eelgroup
Lovely when light catches the recently pollarded willows at #RSPBGreylake #SomersetLevels @waterlevels @vickybanham @andyheald @MaRkrRSPB
Groundwater monitoring #Glastonbury Lake Village #waterlevels already 60cm below surface (10cm lower than last year) #wetlands #heritage
How yellow are your ditches and what is it? #ditchology facebook.com/waterlevels/po…
Makeshift gateways like these, on King's Sedgemoor, block ditches and disrupt water flows @IDBsomerset @NESouthWest
High Ham Rhyne #waterlevels telemetry up & running again - was refusing to phone home (no data lost)
Reclining #oak on King's Sedgemoor #SomersetLevels
World-class #wetland at Shapwick Heath restored from old peat workings in a generation #SomersetLevels @AvalonMarshes @waterlevels @SWTsteve
Always nice to see the first YELLOW FLAG IRIS appear among the emergent vegetation along the ditches
Thanks to those looking after the rhynes & rivers on the #SomersetLevels this spring @waterlevels @EnvAgencySW @IDBengineer @WestcountryRT
Wetland habitat from @IDBsomerset @EnvAgencySW @RSPBSomerset water level management #SomersetLevels #partnership @ADA_updates @lovethelevels
Wetland habitat from @IDBsomerset @EnvAgencySW @RSPBSomerset water level management #SomersetLevels #partnership @ADA_updates @lovethelevels
Lift Off!! #Starlings this morning @RSPBSomerset Ham Wall

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