Every river is different, and even along one section of river there can be a variety of needs. Careful, considered management ensures rivers stay healthy for both people and wildlife.
#RiverManagement #LeakyDams #WildlifeHabitat #FloodManagement #HabitatRestoration
🌿 #EastSuffolkWMB have installed 4 #leakydams in Boxford’s upper surface water catchment, on behalf #SuffolkCountyCouncil
#ReclaimtheRain, together with #SCC’s Flood & Water Team, will be monitoring the outcomes to demonstrate the positive impact of these leaky dams across the catchment
👇📽️Check out this case study from Birds Park Reservoir where 10 #LeakyDams were created, along with other #NFM practices, which turned the old dis-used reservoir into a watercourse maze💧
Watch the video for more information👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNhl...
#Nature #NaturalFloodManagement
#LeakyDams, also known as 'leaky barriers' or 'leaky debris dams', are in-stream structures made of trees or logs which hold back water and #SlowTheFlow💧
Click here to read more👉 thefloodhub.co.uk/wp-content/u... 🌳
@nationaltrust.org.uk’s #HardcastleCrags site where you can visit Gibson Mill.
19th century cotton mill was initially water powered. It now houses an impressive battery bank, fed via PV-cells and hydro. In the same room where you see the set up there’s also a loop film about the #LeakyDams project
👥 Authors: Anthony Jones, Julia Knapp, Sim Reaney, and Ian Pattison
This innovative research provides valuable, real-world data to optimize flood management strategies. Don’t miss it!
See you in Vienna!
#EGU25 #FloodMitigation #LeakyDams #Hydrology #SustainableWaterManagement
Beavers are Fluminists. They understand flow, and they understand just how far to resist without destroying it.
LIFE-flow is generated in multiple directions by this understanding.
#Beavers #leakydams #Interconnectedness #DevotionalLove
The changing face of the Lye Valley fen, climate change, and mitigation measures: www.friendsoflyevalley.org.uk/news/pdf/restoring_lye_v...
#OxfordshireFens #SlowTheFlow #LeakyDams #Flooding #FlorencePark #Volunteers @RosalindRogers...
Our work on #LeakyDams and bank defences continues. This photo is a good illustration of just how bad the erosion from the storm drain at the head of the Valley has been. Rod is standing on the current stream bed. In the past, it would have been at the same level as the fen...
The hard work of repairing and rebuilding the #LeakyDams in the Lye Brook continues. We aim to #SlowTheFlow during peak flow events caused by the storm drain at the head of the Valley and so reduce damage to the soft #peat banks.
#OxfordshireFens #OX3
Days 2 and 3 of #GBR9 were filled with interesting talks, posters and discussions, as well as a great view!
I presented some of my #PhD work on modelling #leakydams
After heavy rain, road runoff from a large part of Headington is discharged at the head of the Valley. Our #LeakyDams raise the water level in the Brook, hold more water for longer, reducing the risk of #flooding downstream, and the loss of #peat through drying. #FenRestoration
Interested in #leakydams #NaturalFloodManagement and #geomorphologicmodelling? Come along tomorrow 10:48-10:54 (CEST) #EGU22! I'm presenting virtually but it's in room -2.23/33
Find out more (including display materials) here:
Good to see our #LeakyDams coping well with the recent rain, by slowing the flow and holding back water for longer. As well as rewetting the fen, it also reduces #flooding in the residential areas downstream from us.
#OxfordshireFens
Good day of #fieldwork today with @GeomorphicJosh doing routine monitoring of #leakydams, though not all went to plan..
More #flytipping, this time a Christmas tree left on the public footpath that runs along the top of the Valley.
However, unlike most rubbish dumped on us, we found a use for this. It's been incorporated into one of our #LeakyDams to help to #SlowTheFlow of water in Lye Brook.
Water level loggers now installed in @Dalby_Forest monitoring response of #leakydams. Data will be used to inform #modelling work. Increasingly important with the weather recently, #WwNP 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 to stop large events, but might 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 impact of smaller ones
