Proactive
WELCOME and NEWS
Welcome to the proactive website, a part of the Proactive Catchment Management philosophy. This new look website is constantly under development with new information and sites.
The proactive ... approach is a dynamic philosophy geared towards intervening in the environment to improve water quality, reduce flood risk and diffuse pollution, recycle waste and introduce renewable energy generation into farming. This includes diffuse pollution management, flood management at source, waste recycling on farms, decision support tools, demonstration sites and modelling. this is an interventionist approach we call Catchment System Engineering.
LATEST NEWS
Nov 2nd. A radical new approach to flood management has been published today by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee entitled ‘Future Flood Prevention ‘
Dr Paul Quinn form the School Civil Engineering and Geosciences acted as a special advisor to the EFRA committee and over the last 6 months has actively contributed to the fact finding and conclusions of the report.
Paul later entered the debate on local radio
Radio Newcastle, a pleasant chat about leaky dams and farms ...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30224237/RNewcastle.m4a
Radio Cumbria, a more juicy debate about reforming the EA ...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30224237/RCumbria.m4a
Later, Dorothy Fairburn from the CLA responded to the first interveiw.. and she gave a very intersting balanced response to the report ...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30224237/RCumbriafollowup.m4a
Radio 5 Live. Paul Quinn talks about the future of flood management following the publication of the National Flood Resilience Review
With the publishing of the National Flood Resilience Review, Paul commended the work done so far. He stressed that this was just the first of a number of reports that will be published to address the long term problems of flooding. ‘We have a lot of flood water coming our way’, so we must fix our existing defences and have temporary barriers for more rapid disposal. There are so many vital infrastructure assets at risk that must be protect in the short term. Then we can make 25 year plan to slow and store flow in our catchments.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30224237/Radio5Live.mp3
ITV Border Extended News Item - Haltwhistle
n.b. the video is at the bottom of the page
http://www.itv.com/news/border/2016-03-17/can-natural-defences-help-prevent-flooding/
Chronicle News Item
BBC News Item - Kerplunk feature at Haltwhistle
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34087255
Paul Quinn in partnership with EA and AMCO win the ICE North East Robert Stephenson Prize 2015, for the Belford Natural Flood Management Scheme
Marc Stutter (JHI) has written an excellent summary in the Scotsman on the 'Holding Water' Workshop that was held in London in November
http://www.scotsman.com/news/water-wisdom-from-the-global-village-1-3629832
We are also working with the FLOW PARTNERSHIP to see if we can move the NFM and catchment agenda froward. Please have a look and help contribute to the big push!
http://www.theflowpartnership.org/events/holding-water-5th-nov-2013/
CIWEM NFM confernce
I Presented a talk entitled Headwaters and Flooding. This presentation and several other great talks can be seen at
http://www.ciwem.org/events/events-outputs.aspx
NFM September 10th. It was given the name 'Managing Flood Risk in Headwater Catchments' - hence I was stressing that Headwaters are everywhere and not just in the uplands!
BELFORD NFM REPORT
Our Natural Flood Management Report (using Runoff Attenuation Features) can now be found under The Belford Link
http://research.ncl.ac.uk/proactive/belford/
BBC articles citing the Belford case study
The One Show
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30224237/Test/MOV_1193.mp4
BBC online
Back-to-nature flood schemes need 'government leadership' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25752320
How do you stop flooding? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25929644
Farmers urged by WWF to do more to prevent flooding http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25931847
The Newcastle Journal - Pioneering Northumberland flood defence scheme proves a big success
Newcastle University front page and press release - ‘Natural’ engineering offers solution against future flooding
Netherton Burn Runoff Management Project - Northumberland National Park awarded the Project and the local farmers the 2013 Natural Resources Innovation Prize. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/proactive/nethertonburnstudy/naturalrunoffmanagementscheme/
CIRIA have produced an excellent review on Flood Management citing Belford, The Hodder and the FARM tool as examples.
MS4W PDF 4,617Kb
Nafferton Farm Water Quantity and Quality study
