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| [[File:River Cary.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Cary]] | | #Redirect[[River Cary]] |
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| The '''River Cary''' is a river in [[Somerset]], flowing across the [[Somerset Levels]] and finally entering the [[River Parrett]]
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| The Cary has its source at Park Pond in [[Castle Cary]], and then flows southwest through [[Cary Moor]] to [[Babcary]], where there is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at [[Babcary Meadows]] and [[Cary Fitzpaine]].
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| From Cary Fitzpaine the river flows north-west through [[Charlton Mackrell]] to the north of [[Somerton]], passing under the [[Somerton Viaduct]]. Here the river channel has been straightened and drains the surrounding wetland as it heads north to Kings Sedge Moor.
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| The Cary passes through [[King's Sedgemoor]] continuing west across the moors south of the [[Polden Hills]]. At [[Henley, Somerset|Henley]] it joins the artificial channels of the Sutton Moor Rhyne and the [[King's Sedgemoor Drain]], both of which drain the wetland. Much of the water is now diverted into King's Sedgemoor Drain, which continues across the moors to join the estuary of the [[River Parrett]] at [[Dunball]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/cultureheritage/heritage/info/somersetlandscape/somersettopographyrivers2.cfm |title=Somerset Topography: Rivers |accessdate=2007-11-22 |format= |work=Somerset County Council }}</ref>
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| ==Incidents and studies==
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| In 1995 a major pollution incident occurred when lindane and mercury seed dressing were poured down a drain which leads into the river near Somerton.<ref>{{cite journal |journal = Pesticides News | year = 1995| page = 5 | volume = 30| title=Dumped lindane costs dear |accessdate=2007-11-22 |url=http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Issue/Pn30/pn30p3.htm |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071024071242/http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Issue/Pn30/pn30p3.htm |archivedate = 2007-10-24}}</ref>
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| The river was the site of a study to examine the use of strategically placed floodplain woodland to alleviate downstream flooding.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=H |authorlink= |first2=T. R. |last2=Nisbet |year=2007 |title=An assessment of the impact of floodplain woodland on flood flows |journal=Water and Environment Journal |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=114–126 |doi=10.1111/j.1747-6593.2006.00056.x |url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1747-6593.2006.00056.x |accessdate= 2007-11-22 |quote= }}</ref>
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| ==Outside links==
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| {{commons|River Cary (Somerset)}}
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Rivers of Somerset|Cary]]
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