The Uplands and Flooding

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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

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• Policy Background
• State of Science
• Policy Future

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• 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.

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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

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Uplands and flooding

• Restoration of degraded blanket bogs
• Grip blocking
• Changes of management
• Reforestation

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SC00692- SCaMP
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Defra multi-objective projects
Moors for the Future
Holnicote
Slowing the Flow in Pickering
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Karen EynonMaking Space for Water Project
Manager
Making Space for Water in the Upper Derwent
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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

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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

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Kinder Scout The Edge
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Restoring the Edge site
Large size Soil chemistry intervention (lime and
fertiliser) Nurse grass crop Physical
works Heather brash Access difficulties Much
winter work!
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Importance of the Bill
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Upland work Key Points

• Have an open mind!
• Understand the catchment
• Monitor the impacts
• Dont dismiss the wider benefits
• Make sure you have a good monitoring strategy

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

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Key messages

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