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Catchment Based Approach Conference

Monday, 8th June 2015

Fishmongers’ Hall, London

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Welcome and

CaBA Achievements to date

Arlin Rickard Chairman

CaBA National Support Group

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The Common Challenge

Richard Cole Defra

CaBA: Success to date and the Challenge that remains

Richard Cole Defra

Aims

• Acknowledge the progress that has been made with CaBA in a short space of time

• What evaluation tells us

• This years funding

• Consider what’s next for the CaBA policy?

• What can we do with the funding we have over the coming year to prepare

We have come a long way • Piloted the approach from October 2011

demonstrating a 3:1 cost benefit • May 2013 Launched Policy framework and

Supporting handbook • By March 2014 established over 100

Partnerships across all of England’s 87 (and 6 cross border) catchments

• Package of support developed and delivered under the National Support Group

• 4:1 match funding for every pound invested in the CaBA host role

Our stated objectives for the Catchment Based Approach

• To deliver positive and sustained outcomes for the water environment by promoting a better understanding of the environment at a local level

• To encourage local collaboration and more transparent decision-making when both planning and delivering activities to improve the water environment

• Contribute to 2nd Cycle River Basin Management Plan implementation and beyond

Evaluation shows

• Despite many partnerships were set up since 2013, good progress is being made.

• Partnerships are now spending less time developing the partnership and more time ‘delivering practical environmental work’.

• It is clear that the focus on practical work has increased with maturity; and also that this has attracted more funding from non-Defra sources (other government and non-government sources).

Q30: Please indicate the extent to which you feel you have completed the following activities satisfactorily up to the point of the survey

Estimated partnership spend by activity 2014/15

Partnership development and administration

Local community engagement and conflict resolution

Co-ordinating activities across organisations, geographic areas and delivery areas

Data collation and interpretation, and planning including influencing others plans and policies

Delivering practical environmental work, advice or awareness raising in the catchment

Other

Greater local collaboration and transparent decision making

• Representation on partnerships continues to improve, particularly involving landowners, local government and businesses.

• Overall 82% (up from 75%) of respondents felt their partnership is working effectively together and the vast majority (72% - 81% (up from 60-75%) agreed decisions in their partnership were: transparent; evidence-based; and equitable.

Sustainability

• Progress is greatest when involving stakeholders in prioritising issues and taking action to address them.

• Overall, Defra funding for the host role represented <20% of the total funding in catchments, i.e. partnerships are leveraging further investment into the catchments at around 4:1.

Some challenges still remain

• The benefits often still remain difficult to assess and further work is being completed to try and understand this more clearly

• Progress can be slow around enabling more co-ordinated measures and bringing planning systems together.

• Few respondents have developed a business plan in their partnership (6%) despite the intentions expressed by c50% of respondents that this would be completed by the end of March 2015. 46% of respondents now believe this will be completed by March 2016.

• Despite high levels of commitment, approximately one third of respondents are unsure, or not at all confident, that their partnership can continue beyond March 2016 based on the financial and in-kind support committed and the structures in place.

Impacts: Greater benefits from co-beneficial measures and

aligned projects>£17-23m (based on anticipated benefits of 3-4x

the catchment expenditure spent on delivering environmental

improvements)

Expenditure: £9.4m Investment in more and more aligned catchment

projects (based on leveraging >4:1)

Inputs: Investment of £1.8m for host role to enable effective local

partnership working in 2014/15

There remains huge potential to be realised!

Where next for CaBA ? • It is still too early to report on new Ministers

preferences. But they will be looking over the next 5 years.

• New government does not alter the localism agenda but there are options around the future, e.g.:

– CaBA could continue as a voluntary only initiative doing what it can, this might best be supported by funding joint projects

– CaBA partnerships could have a cross-cutting role across environmental pressures

– CaBA could have a stronger more formal role – perhaps with associated funding

How can we prepare?

• Either way we need to make a clear business case based on evaluation

• Future funding is more likely if partnerships are trusted by stakeholders, can show delivering real benefits against Defra’s objectives across the water and wider environment

• So we need to make the most of the funding we have in this year

This year’s funding

• Defra is providing significant funding this year with £4.7m for catchment level delivery projects and the CaBA Host role

• The rationale is to help partnerships build delivery capability

• Help to demonstrate action to partners • And help elicit further funding from others

going forward, so far projects have matched £3.3M

• We are also providing central support through the NSG

Progress with CPAF funding applications for FY 15/16

• EA Catchment Coordinators have worked with partners to align bids

to meet local WFD priorities

• The formal delivery phase of the CPAF projects is happening NOW

and they will be expected to be complete by the end of March 2016.

• All partnerships submitting projects have been awarded funding.

(Some have been required to resubmit applications or provide

additional information before funding can be made.)

• The majority of award letters have been sent out. Applicants who

have resubmitted applications will receive award letters by close

Weds 10th June,

• (as of 3rd June) 88 payments out of 147 equaling £1.8m have been

processed by the EA finance department and payments will be

made by 16th June,

• There will be a further payment in the Autumn of 2015 upon receipt

of a progress report in September 2015.

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The challenge over the next year

• The immediate challenge is securing funding for next year

• Defra colleagues can help present the best evidence and Hosts can help by providing examples and seeking external funding - this means demonstrating delivery using this years funding

• The NSG need to help all hosts understand their partnership’s current status and to provide the best targeted support

What will help • Defra have been working with Cascade to capture data

on costs and benefits – good local records can help

• Defra have been working with the NSG to provide a self-evaluation tool to help partnerships determine their status, their strengths and areas for improvement

• Defra plan to make software available to NSG to take pulse surveys amongst the CaBA community to help identify issues for resolution and best target NSG support to meet their needs

• Defra will continue to work with the NSG and its working groups around future options and to fill any gaps in process and guidance

While the future is uncertain, lets make the most of the opportunity we have over the coming year!

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Working in Partnership

George Gerring Environment Agency

Working in partnership North East insights

Name: George Gerring, EA Catchment Coordinator, River Wear Date: 8th June 2015

Aims of the session

To provide a local catchment perspective on working in partnership

Share best practice for how North East catchment coordinators are implementing the CaBa

Explain the need and our approach for measuring success – local and national self-assessment

Describe how we see our future relationship with River Basin Planning and beyond

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North East Catchment Partnerships & Coordinators

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Mary

Weatherby

Graeme

Hull

George

Gerring

Clare

Steward

Catchment Partnership Structures

Your River Tees Catchment Partnership

Steering Group

Estuary Vision Group

Cross Catchment headwaters

group

Cross Catchment Host

Forum

Project Task & Finish groups

Wear Catchment Partnership

Steering Group

Coastal streams & estuary Group


group


Forum


Tyne Catchment Partnership

Steering group

Sits on Northumberland Coastal Group


group


Forum


Northumberland Catchment Partnership

Steering Group

Coastal Group


Forum


Tweed Forum

Tweed Forum Steering group


Forum


Northumbrian Water

Member of each steering group

Member of each coastal group

Partake in cross catchment Host

Forum

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EA Internal Catchment Groups

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Implementing CaBA is…

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Enabling greater partnership input and transparency into WFD Evidence Cycle

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Classifications

Confirm failure

Investigate failure

Measures Cost Benefit

Analysis

Affordability

Implementation

Draft MTP

Confirm MTP

Workshops.

Catchment Coordinators

Evidence sharing platform

Workshops

Catchment Coordinators

Project ideas

Project bids

Project partners

Improving knowledge > understanding > decision making

Chester-Le-Street and District Angling Club - Twizell Burn catchment walk over

Improving the way we engage with the public

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Providing a voice for water

Local Nature Partnerships 4 LNP’s in NE area Building relationships with catchment partnerships

Local Enterprise Partnership

…facilitate growth and private sector investment, allow business to grow, become more profitable, greener and enable new businesses to form and prosper. NE ‘Nature Based Tourism’ Tyne Sediment Study

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UNCLASSIFIED

Measuring success

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Why bother?

Support capacity building and becoming ‘self sustaining’ and financing

Establish a common framework for benchmarking partnership progress

Clarify role of Catchment Partnerships

Identify for potential growth

Review performance

Make the case for continued investment and attract further

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Our Catchment Partnership Game

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Defra Value for Money survey

Defra have commissioned a second independent survey of catchment partnerships to determine return on investment and value for money.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://bigsonata.com/darpa-releases-deepdive-open-source-ai-technology/&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ei=R55xVcunEabW7Qb9voLoCw&ved=0CBoQ9QEwAg&usg=AFQjCNFP6ApLE5xv0JB_UtTqodyGBn3Big

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://www.sandybeachtrips.com/be-enchanted-by-the-picturesque-indian-ocean-at-blue-deep-dive-centre.html&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ei=R55xVcunEabW7Qb9voLoCw&ved=0CCoQ9QEwCg&usg=AFQjCNFrtrxdtlPz6b0MP5CLY53FjUCvAA

CaBa self assessment tools

Purpose to help Catchment Partnerships:

Assess their governance and collaborative working practices

Identify priority areas for improvement

Currently being developed and trialled

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UNCLASSIFIED

Consist of 3 elements…

Catchment Partnerships Benchmarking Tool based on an understanding and prioritising of processes as well as indicating successful outcomes identify objectives and priorities for improvement in collaborative working in relation to each benchmark

Catchment Partnership Milestones based on findings from the evaluation of the Catchment Based Approach Pilots Common stages in development and associated milestones

20-minute Collaborative Working Health Check

quickly assess their Partnership’s performance in terms of recognised good practice identify areas for improvement and to recognise support/development needs

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Partnership working

and River Basin

Planning

Anglian Humber Northumbria North West Severn South East South West Thames All RBDs

Over 500 Responses

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40

60

80

100

Draft RBMP consultation feedback

On changes to the waterbody network

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Small coastal streams will no longer be specifically reported in the updated river basin management plans (RBMP2) as they do not meet the European size criteria

Even though they will not be reported to Europe, the WFD covers all waters so they will still be managed (as they were before)

Defra/EA National developing guidance for our staff and partners on how we manage and regulate places not covered by ‘the blue line’

‘….the deletion of the minor bodies removes “official” recognition and perceived support; directly undermining any potential local level intervention to improve the water and related environment.’ An individual

On accessing and making better use of 3rd party data

Pittington Beck

source to Old

Durham Beck

Old Durham Beck source

to Chapman Beck

Old Durham Beck

from Chapman Beck

to Wear

EA sample point

Obstructions – priority culverts

DU sample points

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Response documents

High level summary of consultation responses for local and national partners and the public. Due July 2015.

Summary of feedback received and the changes made to the RBMP as a consequence, intended for European Commission and Ministers, but also available to partners.

Due 22 September 2015.

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RBMP - Catchment Pages

Contain the 3 section headings: The Catchment Partnership and the top 3 priority issues in their catchment

Contribution to environmental outcomes by 2021

Future aims

Contain contact details for the Catchment Partnership(s)

The final date for the Catchment Pages to be complete is 26 June 2015

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Flood Risk and River Basin Planning

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Upland restoration Pond creation Woodlands Woody debris Rural wetlands Flood storage Urban river restoration Sustainable drainage Coastal realignment Soil erosion reduction Climate change

Natural Flood Management Multiple Benefits

We have the right ingredients for growth…

We need to be prepared to diversify…

Institutional

• Increasing water related partnerships: catapults and clusters

• University impact from research

• “95% of primary school teachers are uncomfortable teaching science – and only 3% hold a specialist degree or teacher training qualification

Economic

• Natural capital

• Corporate water stewardship

• “water is a fast moving $500 billion global business and collaboration is the key to accessing the global market” UKWIP

Legislative

• Existing water based legislation

• ‘Open Water’

• The Water Act 2014: increased competition in the water sector

Funding

Partners

Activities

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View from the

National Support Group

Ali Morse NSG Secretariat

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National CaBA

Support Group

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• Terms of

Reference: work

collaboratively to

support Catchment

Partnerships and to

champion the

Catchment Based

Approach

• Working Groups

• Catchment

Partnership Fund

Projects

• Communications

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Working Groups

© Connect Right

© Environment

Agency

CDUG Urban Agriculture Forestry

Funding Fisheries Biodiversity TraC Waters

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Catchment Partnership Fund Projects

Pathways for Ecosystem Services Delivery Engaging with Planners & Local Authorities

© TICP / WCSRT

© TICP / HIWWT

•Creation of information packs for

LAs, outlining duties under WFD.

•General information & guidance for

specific depts. such as highways,

planning and greenspace

management.

• Development of a training package

for planners and developers.

•Identify which models/schemes

work, noting key pathways &

mechanisms for success.

• A report & searchable database to

summarise the findings of the

review for the CaBA Community.

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Catchment Partnership Fund Projects

Lakes & Wetlands Website Training

© TICP / WCSRT

© TICP / HIWWT

•Highlighting the importance of lakes in

freshwater conservation.

•Considering non-WFD waterbodies

•Promoting local community involvement

•Enabling CaBA Partnership engagement

in the network in order to share expertise

© HIWWT

•Development & delivery of a series

of training courses for catchment

partnerships operating in urban

catchments.

•Training to provide Catchment

Partnership Hosts with practical

techniques to help improve how

they plan and work collaboratively

in catchments.

© HIWWT

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Communications

Developing and coordinating the adoption &

implementation of an effective and targeted

communications strategy for CaBA.

• Development of an overarching

Communications Strategy and a supporting

Action Plan

• Development of audience specific

messages and resources

• Delivery through existing avenues, (forum,

website, newsletter, workshops), as well as

a network of comms professionals.

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Support Tools

Michelle Walker,

David Johnson & Lucy Butler CaBA Support Team

CaBA Support Tools David Johnson, Michelle Walker, Lucy Butler

The Rivers Trust [email protected]

[email protected] [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



CaBA Support Tools Catchment Data User Group

CaBA Support Tools

• CaBA Website • Discussion Forum • Newsletter • Evidence Sharing

Platform • Mapping Portal • Mobile apps • GIS Data Package • GIS Training • More data • Catchment Planning

Template • Data to Evidence

www.catchmentbasedapproach.org

Newsletter & Twitter

Evidence Sharing Platform Trial

Online Mapping

Story Maps

Mobile Apps

Data package

Even more data • NEAP-N (Nitrate) • PSYCHIC (Sediment & Phosphate)

GIS Training for CaBA

Reading Courses

13th – 14th July Intro

15th – 16th July Advanced

http://ecospatial.info/

Catchment Planning Template

Modelling

Turning Data in to Evidence

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Ouseburn Evidence & Measures Project

Working With Stakeholders To Implement Evidence-Based Measures

Prepared by Paul Hulme and Nick Rukin for the Ouseburn Causes Workshop, 2 & 3 June 2015

Causes Workshop: Introduction

Susan Mackirdy [email protected]

Abi Mansley [email protected]

Paul Hulme [email protected]

Nick Rukin [email protected]

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Several two-page notes

Mobile Apps – Are you interested?

• Do you need an app to collect field data?

• Do you have an app to share?

• Are you interested in collaborative development / forming a user group?

[email protected]

Capacity Building – Your Views?

• What support do you need?

• How can we make best use of limited central resources?

• What expertise do you have to offer others?

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Working with Local Government

and Water Companies

Chair – Barry Bendall The Rivers Trust

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Karen Fisher Buckinghamshire County Council


and Water Companies

Buckinghamshire County Council

Working in partnership for Flood

and Catchment management

A County Council experience

Karen Fisher

Strategic Flood Management Team Leader

Strategic Flood Management Team

• We are a team of 4, who have been together since March

2014, with statutory duties under the Flood and Water

Management Act 2010

• We work in partnership with other authorities, internal partners

and local communities and are keen to develop this further

• We have a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (published

2012) which we are revising to be a catchment based

approach looking at issues and solutions for catchments

• Need to fit in with Corporate Policies

and Strategies

• Our Strategic Flood Management Group

with members from partner organisations

sets our agenda

Where and how we work

• EA led flood alleviation projects e.g Marlow,

Chesham

• Catchment restoration projects – Rivers Ray,

Thame - BBOWT, Steering group of Colne

CAN

• Flood action/community groups – Chesham,

Hughenden Valley, Willows in Aylesbury,

Willowbank in New Denham

• Projects which BCC lead with funding from

FDGiA in Chesham, High Wycombe

• Development led projects – Opening up River

Wye

• Self-funded partnership projects – Aston

Clinton park restoration, temporary defences

Approach to projects

• Work with any other partners

• Need to show business case and/or to be in

line with strategies

• Catchment based flood management focus

including natural flood management and

sustainable drainage systems

• Taking opportunities – Aston Clinton Park

with EA, Forestry Commission

• Supporting others: National Flood Forum,

BBOWT, Colne CAN

• Opportunities of raising awareness in

flooding situations – Hughenden Valley and

Chesham examples

• Working with LEP/NEP


Challenges

• Everyone has a different focus – ours is

flooding but catchment focussed and creative

e.g temporary defences, natural flood

management

• Funding streams are often focussed in

particular areas – needs work and imagination

to bring them together

• Need to work out in communities more but

hindered by lack of resources

• Communities interested in local not usually in

catchment perspective

• People are suspicious of Councils (and EA) so

we are restricted in what we can do with

communities initially as lack of trust


Examples - Chesham

• Multiple areas of flooding need to looking at whole

catchment

• DEFRA Pathfinder project

• Worked with National Flood Forum to raise flood

awareness and established community flood

action group

• Lots of groups in Chesham interested in the river –

River Chess Assoc, Chiltern Chalk Streams,

Chesham Volunteers – some tensions

• Chesham Water group being established to bring

all groups/partners together to keep all informed

and to work together

• Projects going forward will focus on catchment

with multiple options with multiple benefits – e.g

Pednormead End – natural flood management

techniques


Examples - Hughenden Valley

• Groundwater flooding in Feb to June 2014

with infiltration in foul sewers

• Thames Water over-pumped sewage into

Hughenden chalk stream for 3 months

• Community Group established

• Combined effort of BCC, Transport for Bucks

and residents put together a map of drainage

and watercourses and groundwater maps –

catchment focussed

• Residents very active

• Solutions need to be catchment based with

different approaches

• Location submitted as part of DEFRA small

schemes bid for natural flood management


How does this benefit Buckinghamshire?

Bucks CC Strategic plan has eight priorities. Three of them are:

• Our Special Environment Protecting the county’s special environment

and ensuring it continues to be nationally recognised as one of the

best places to live and work

• Getting Involved Encouraging people and communities to be actively

involved in their local area and services

• Value for money Continuing to provide excellent value for money

The projects and approach we are promoting will deliver against the objectives

within these priorities


Ways forward

• Continue working with communities and partners

but limited resources – people and funds

• Lack of trust in council makes initial contacts

difficult – better for NGOs to progress this and us

to support

• LIFE bid for raising awareness of land

management techniques and impact on

flooding/pollution – work with multiple partners

• Small Schemes bid in with DEFRA for looking at

Natural Flood Management techniques

• Continue to work in partnership with others –

Colne CAN, Chesham Water Group, Misbourne

multi-objective project

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Will Robinson Essex and Suffolk Water


and Water Companies

CATCHMENT BASED

APPROACH

A Water Company’s Perspective

Will Robinson 09/06/2015

CONTENTS CONTENTS

1 About NWG

2 NWG Funding &

Collaborative Working

3 CaBA Catchment

Partnerships

4 CaBA Benefits

5 Future direction

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ABOUT US

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NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP

• Serves 4.5m customers

• Employee 3,000 people

• 25,000km water main

• 30,000km sewer (NW only)

CATCHMENT BASED APPROACH

• Catchment Based Approach (CaBA),

...involves collaborative working at a river catchment

scale to deliver improvements to our water environments.

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• PR14 Customer Surveys

NWG should work in partnership to

improve river water quality i.e. play

our part as others play theirs

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NWG FUNDING &

COLLABORATIVE

WORKING

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NWL FUNDING STREAMS

AMP NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

NON-NEP CAPITAL

INVESTMENT

UPSTREAM CATCHMENT

MANAGEMENT

MANAGING SSSI

• Sustainable

Abstraction

• Cleaner Rivers

• SSSI in

Favourable

Condition

• Clean, Clear

Drinking Water

That Tastes Good

• Investigations

• If required, Options Appraisal and

Solutions

• NEP agreed every 5 years with

regulators (EA, Ofwat, NE)

• Ormesby Broad Mud Pumping Project

• Working collaboratively with:

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Trinity Broads Mud Pumping

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

NWG FUNDING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS:

NON-NEP CAPITAL PROGRAMME

• Opportunities to build in environmental

enhancement

• Abberton Scheme: £150m Project

• Working collaboratively with Essex

Wildlife Trust 101


Concrete

Edge

Removal

NON-NEP CAPITAL PROGRAMME

• Opportunities to build in environmental

enhancement

• Abberton Scheme: £150m Project

• Working collaboratively with Essex

Wildlife Trust 102


BRANCH OUT

• works in partnership to reconnect habitats

for the benefit of people and wildlife

• applications must deliver benefits to water

quality, wildlife and communities

• Focus on connecting up habitats

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NWG funding for environmental improvements:

MANAGING OUR OWN SSSI

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Habitats

• ~1500 ha of wetlands (incl. ~ 90ha reed-bed) • 242 ha of woodland • 70ha of grassland in active conservation management

Protected areas

• 5 SSSIs

• 3 SPAs & 3 SACs

• 43 Local wildlife sites

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MANAGING OUR OWN SSSI


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UPSTREAM

CATCHMENT

MANAGEMENT

WATER QUALITY CHALLENGES

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• Pesticides

• Nitrates

• Turbidity

WATER QUALITY CHALLENGES

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• Our vision is to be the national

leader in the provision of

sustainable water and waste water

services.

• From a drinking water perspective,

this means reducing pollution at

source

CHELMER & BLACKWATER PARTNERSHIP

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UPSTREAM CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT

Working in partnership with...

CHELMER AND BLACKWATER CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP

Training

Workshops

& Events

Newsletters

One to One

Farm Visits

Support

Completing Capital

Grant Applications

Pilots Farm

Demonstrations

Evidence

Base

DEMONSTRATION BIOBEDS

Sprayer filling

area

Biobed Irrigation area for

clean effluent

Project

Branding

Farmer / Agronomist

Articles

Adverts for

Events

C & B WEBSITE

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BENEFITS OF

COLLABORATIVE

WORKING

BENEFITS OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

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CABA

• We fund wardens to manage our

land

• Staff continuity

• Customer / Community

Engagement

• Draws in volunteers

• Draws in funding for key

priorities

• Share expertise / knowledge

• Allows larger projects with

multiple benefits to be delivered

http://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/

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NWG Input

CABA CATCHMENT

PARTNERSHIPS

NWG INPUT

• NWG reps on Catchment Partnership steering groups

• We have a real willingness to engage

• Some direct start up funding

• Some in-kind funding

• Project delivery

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CABA CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIPS

BENEFITS SEEN BY NWG

• “Opportunity to meet with other groups that I wouldn’t normally

meet during the course of my job, who have broadly the same

remit of improving the environment”.

• “Being able to explain what our responsibilities are, how we are

funded and what work we deliver”.

• “Making better links – holistic water management”.

• “Identifying opportunities for joint working / match funding to

deliver bigger projects and improvements.

• “Gaining greater knowledge of issues in the catchment through

information from catchment walkovers”.

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CATCHMENT BASED APPROACH

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CABA CATCHMENT

PARTNERSHIPS

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BROADLAND CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP

Startup Workshop Issues & Evidence

Workshop Activity & Action

Workshop

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BROADLAND CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP

An Excellent Model...

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THE FUTURE

CATCHMENT TEAM

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Clare Deasy

WFD Catchment

Co-ordinator

Claire Lorenc

Catchment

Co-ordinator

AMP5 Team AMP6 Additions

Plus

Two additional

Northumbrian Water

Catchment Advisors

• NWG fully supports the Catchment Based Approach

• NWG continue to support CP steering groups

• NWL to continue to work with the CPs to look for

opportunities where we can work together to deliver water

quality and ecological benefit

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THE FUTURE

BLACKWATER SLUICE FISH BYPASS

• NWG Eel Regs obligations through NEP

• Working in partnership to deliver a

solution with benefits over and above

our NEP obligations

• Not easy, challenges re: water supply,

funding, landownership...

• Need to be innovative!

• Hope to work in collaboratively with:

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE

CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIPS

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CABA

• Longer term funding commitments

• Existing funding application windows too short (e.g. CPAF

funding)

– Issue for many CPs

– More time required to identify solutions / opportunities

THANK YOU

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