Catchment Management
Runoff Management Plan - Introducing the demonstration sites
Learning from best practice demonstrated within the Belford Burn catchment in Northumberland, Tyne Rivers Trust is promoting the use of Natural Flood Management (NFM) within the Haltwhistle Burn catchment. NFM involves constructing intervention features and introducing land management measures which work with natural processes (rather than against) in order to reduce flood risk, sediment, water quality and subsequently, habitat degradation issues.
Newcastle University has developed a runoff management plan highlighting two zones which will be used as NFM demonstration sites and it also presents a selection of features that are proposed. The plan takes into account local knowledge and catchment observations made by the local community. The plan is made up of two components: 1) a report 2) an interactive map.
As part of the Catchment Restoration Funds (CRF) project, Tyne Rivers Trust has also already introduced a number of catchment management measures within the Haltwhistle Burn catchment. Some of these measures are also designed to manage catchment runoff and will compliment features proposed within the two demonstration test catchments. You can find these plotted within the map below under 'existing features'.
1. Runoff Management Plan - the report:
DRAFT Runoff Management Plan report (v0.3) - by Newcastle University PDF 2,722Kb
This is a draft report and is therefore subject to change. Click on the link above to download a copy (pdf).
2. Runoff Management Plan - Interactive Map:
Play around with the map below to find out where the two demonstration sites will be and what NFM features and proposed. Here are a few tips/reminders before you get started:
- For best results, view this web page using Google Chrome (http://www.google.co.uk/chrome/)
- Read through the runoff management document whilst exploring the map
- Click on the ‘Legend’ tab in the top left corner of the map to find out what everything is
- If you click on the polygons, arrows and dots, a window will pop up describing what the features are, how their performance can be monitored over time (suggested community-based monitoring activities) and it also contains images of what they may look like once constructed. Start within Haltwhistle – find out about the impact zone (purple box)
- Click on the images within the pop up to view a larger copy
- Be aware that we are still within the planning stage. Locations and features are indicative at this stage. Monitoring and modelling techniques will be required at a later stage to determine specific detail.
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If you have any feedback or queries on the report itself or map, please fill out the comment box below.
