WATERWORK: Leaky dam in Bootle
Trees and hedge plants are being put in at Bootle as part of Defra’s £15m National Natural Flood Management Programme, with £2.6m being spent in Cumbria.
Bootle is due to have 3,500 hedge plants and 200 trees planted as part of this scheme in the project in West Cumbria.
Five hundred of the 3,500 were planted on January 18.
West Cumbria Rivers Trust secured over £160,000 in 2019 to do this, in order to reduce flood risk to the village of Bootle.
The ‘Natural flood management’ project is funded by the Environment Agency and Walney Community fund.
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