Community Engagement in Water Management – Examples from

across the UK

Rob Collins - The Rivers Trust

rob@theriverstrust.org

http://waterlife.org.uk

http://www.catchmentbasedapproach.org

CaBA Partnerships provide an ideal vehicle to mobilise debate

between flood threatened communities and those

organisations (& individuals) able to enact mitigation action

Influence of the wider catchment upon towns and cities

Walkover Surveys

Assessing condition on the ground – survey of riparian corridor

• Bank and hillside erosion

• Sedimentation of gravels

• Missing arable buffer strips

• Obstructions to fish passage

• Road and Agricultural runoff

• INNS Photos – Wye and Usk Foundation

River clean ups

Invasive non-native species

Action on the ground

• Identify, record and map distribution of Freshwater INNS

• Biosecurity Plans developed

• Rapid Response

• Action to control plant species

Fish Migration – Fish Passes & Weir Removal

Photo: Wandle Rivers Trust

Urban Pollution

• Misconnections; CaBA Partnerships, Local Authorities & Water Companies

• Community Engagement and Awareness Raising –Yellow Fish Campaigns

Ordnance Survey Mastermap © Crown copyright and database right 2014

‘DOWNSTREAM DEFENDERS’Bespoke design on 3 surface water drainsR.Wandle, Carshalton, S.London

Hydrodynamic Vortex Chambers

Pollution Assessment Volunteer Scheme

The Lost Effra ProjectPartnership working to create community owned SuDS

Winner of the

SWIG Award

2015 for Open

Spaces

London is being paved over

Lowden Road depave

Replacing paving slabs with rain gardens

September 2015

November 2015

SuDS in the London Borough of Enfield

Co-design with local community; ponds, wetlands,

swales to reduced flood risk, improve water quality,

provide new wildlife habitat and green spaces