Syston Community Flood Group Clears Brook Silt to Prevent Floods
Nineteen volunteers from the Syston Community Flood Group manually extracted over two tonnes of hardened silt from Syston Brook during low summer water levels to prevent repeating the devastating winter floods of January 2024 and 2025. The Environment Agency hauled away the compacted sediment, while Charnwood Borough Council collected cleared vegetation for composting. Syston Community … Read more