Eavis urges UK to start dredging in Somerset

Michael Eavis, organiser of the Glastonbury Festival and a dairy farmer, has urged the UK government’s Environment Agency to restart dredging of the rivers in Somerset in order to help with continued flooding, in an article published on the Mail Online website.

The Parrett, Tone and Brue rivers have all burst their banks and Eavis says the agency’s unwillingness to dredge regularly is the culprit. He launched a underway. Farms in the Somerset area of the UK, a key dairy farming and cheese making area, have been flooded for the second time in two years and have been seeing high water since the end of December. The flooding has now been declared a major incident by the local governments and the British Prime Minister has pledged help for the area.