Posted on February 1, 2016
By Katie Dickinson, The Westmorland Gazette
DAYS of dredging work carried out by the Environment Agency in the River Kent was simply flushed away in heavy rain last Friday.
Two diggers spent much of last week dredging the river at Gooseholme in Kendal to help lower the chances of flooding.
Nearby residents, who were initially ‘very excited’ about the work being done, watched in dismay as the large piles of silt and rubble were carried away by the swollen river just four days later.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
