Wonky EA Arithmetic Somerset Levels ?

Environment Secretary Liz Truss has been down to Somerset again - and it would seem she's poster girl for the EA  The article covering Liz's visit in the Western Morning News quotes (from the EA we have to assume) that :

"More than 130,000 million cubic metres of silt have been extracted in the £6 million exercise and used either to improve local arable land or build up drainage banks".

Which is pretty astounding value for money and a near miraculous engineering achievement - that'd be a cube with 3 mile sides..... yes - quite astounding from 5 miles of 20 metre wide river - somebody can't count.....(it's the Western Morning News by the look of it!)

We think she would have been well advised to bring her own outdoor attire .... Cheap shots aside - it's obvious the EA want to keep control of drainage in the area and standard delay tactics are being deployed - which quite predictably have got the local MP going  - and Ian Liddel Grainger has been on local TV giving voice to concerns that commitments made earlier are being "slow tracked" - and we have to assume that The EA is true to form - gaming to retain / cling on to control in Somerset.... Considerable manoeuvring behind the scenes, out of public view on this one we'd reckon.

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Well....  we know here that at the very least half the £3 million funding for Somerset Rivers Board has been spent - making a colossal foul up on the River Avon in Wiltshire at Avoncliff weir  

- and it's still ticking up every month...

Meanwhile ....  Liz's predecessor seems to be shaping up to be a thorn in the side of the present Tory front bench crew via  http://www.uk2020.org.uk/  who already it would seem - have The EA in the crosshairs......