Nature dictates as contractors move in to safeguard Boscastle

25 October 2006

Contractors will start work on a £4.6M flood defence scheme in Boscastle, north Cornwall, next week.
Carillion has been contracted to widen and lower the River Valency and raise the car park area, in order to reduce future flooding. Boscastle was hit by severe flooding in August 2004, when 42 homes and businesses were largely ruined.
Preparations already under way include tree removal, safe relocation of fish from the river and reptiles from the meadow area, trial trenches, footpath diversion around the car park, and setting up the main compound in the meadow at the east end of the car park.
Gordon Trapmore, of the Environment Agency, said: ‘We are all working closely together to get this project completed so that Boscastle can continue its regeneration and look to the future.’ The Valency work is scheduled for completion in spring 2008 and forms part of an overall flood defence project involving the Environment Agency, North Cornwall District Council and South West Water.

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