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The Uplands and Flooding

The Uplands and Flooding. Amy Parrott: Policy Advisor, Flood and Coastal Risk Management Karen Eynon : Moors for the Future Project Manager, Making Space for Water Project. Policy Background State of Science Policy Future. RECOMMENDATION 27:

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The Uplands and Flooding

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  1. The Uplands and Flooding Amy Parrott: Policy Advisor, Flood and Coastal Risk Management Karen Eynon: Moors for the Future Project Manager, Making Space for Water Project

  2. Policy Background State of Science Policy Future

  3. RECOMMENDATION 27: Defra, the Environment Agency and Natural England should work with partners to establish a programme through Catchment Flood Management Plans and Shoreline Management Plans to achieve greater working with natural processes.

  4. Pitt & land use • Rural Land Management can help • retain water in soil • slow down water flow • reduce run-off • Wider scale benefits remain unproven • Recognises local scale benefits of better land use • Further studies needed

  5. Uplands and flooding • Restoration of degraded blanket bogs • Grip blocking • Changes of management • Reforestation

  6. SC00692- SCaMP

  7. Defra multi-objective projects Moors for the Future Holnicote Slowing the Flow in Pickering

  8. Making Space for Water in the Upper Derwent Karen EynonMaking Space for Water Project Manager

  9. Making Space for Water in the Upper Derwent Environment Agency working in partnership with Natural England and the National Trust –building on Moors for the Future

  10. Making Space for Water in the Upper Derwent Demonstration project to show how land management changes (specifically moorland restoration) can contribute to reducing flood risk at the local scale

  11. Kinder Scout – The Edge

  12. Restoring the Edge site Large size Soil chemistry intervention (lime and fertiliser) Nurse grass crop Physical works Heather brash Access difficulties Much winter work!

  13. Importance of the Bill • Local Flood Risk • Surface runoff • Groundwater • Ordinary • watercourses • Strategic Flood Risk • Main rivers • Sea • Reservoirs Coastal erosion Strategic Overview

  14. Upland work: Key Points • Have an open mind! • Understand the catchment • Monitor the impacts • Don’t dismiss the wider benefits • Make sure you have a good monitoring strategy

  15. Environment Agency • FRM GIA • Catchment Scale Research • Prioritise Research • Catchment Sensitive Farming objective Natural England • Maximise FRM benefits • Deliver Flood storage • CFMP targeting

  16. Key messages • Small scale changes work locally • Large scale impacts need more investigation • We will continue to prioritise catchment scale research

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