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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=File:Ust_to_Dst_Hartsop_Edited_reduced.jpg&diff=49608 2024-03-14T14:36:23Z

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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Ullswater_Catchment_Restoration&diff=49601 2024-03-14T12:52:59Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.54411354028105, -2.949277369726182<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Themes=Economic aspects, Environmental flows and water resources, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=Ullswater Catchment Management CIC<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.ucmcic.com<br /> |Partner organisations=The National Trust, Cumbria River Restoration Strategy<br /> |Multi-site=Yes<br /> |Project picture=Ullswater Valley National Trust Images John Malley.jpg<br /> |Project summary=Ullswater is one of the most iconic destinations in the Lake District, attracting millions of visitors every year and home to thriving rural communities. However, decades of agricultural intensification and land use change have resulted in highly modified river and declining biodiversity. The Ullswater catchment restoration project seeks to reverse this decline in habitat and natural processes through working with landowners and local communities to foster change at a catchment scale. <br /> The project area includes the headwaters systems, tributaries, rivers, and catchment land draining into Ullswater. These systems have been historically modified to improve the valley bottom areas for farming, with straightening, deepening, embanking, revetments, and width rationalisation a common sight. Hidden alterations to the functioning of the system are also present with underdrainage significantly impacting on the natural hydrology. The consequence of such high levels of modification combined with a changing climate has increased the flood risk to local communities. This is coupled with frequent seasonal drying of main river systems during periods of reduced rainfall. Valley floor modification is significant, and the combined effect of all changes has been to severely degrade the wet environment with consequent losses of biodiversity.<br /> In response the Ullswater catchment Partnership has been working to deliver management initiatives and physical interventions for almost 10years. The partners have delivered 282 projects, including over 13km of river restoration, 46ha of water storage, 12km of hedgerow creation, 497ha of wood pasture restoration and 249ha of peat and wetland restoration. A key large-scale achievement has been the river and valley bottom naturalisation work which stretches from the bottom of Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater and includes large areas of the Brothers Water SSSI and the River Eden and tributaries SSSI. <br /> Numerous farm scale initiatives have been carried out across the catchment with the partnership carrying out restoration across a total area of 843ha. The interventions across the catchment include:<br /> • River restoration through de-culverting, embankment removal, small barrier removal, stage 0 interventions, and re-meandering over 13.7km<br /> • Pond creation and offline water storage totalling 46ha.<br /> • Hedgerow creation and restoration and riparian corridor restoration over 16km<br /> • Wood pasture creation and restoration across 497ha<br /> • Peat and wetland restoration over 249ha<br /> The project outputs are monitored through several approaches including repeat freshwater and terrestrial ecological surveying, soil nutrient, organic matter and carbon sequestration analysis, sediment storage analysis, hydrological monitoring of large interventions, fish surveying and redd counting and citizen science monitoring initiatives.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=Work in the Ullswater catchment has comprised numerous small-scale farm-based interventions through to larger strategic works to naturalise the bigger watercourse and floodplain areas. To date 282 projects have been completed with a combined area of 843ha. <br /> 249ha of upland peat restoration has included 16,200 peat bunds, 12,000m of peat hag re-profiling and 21ha of sphagnum inoculation. Wood pasture restoration and creation covers 497ha and combined with 16km of hedgerow creation over 150,000 trees have been planted. Pond and wetland creation has resulted in 46ha of standing water habitat. River restoration has been carried out over 13.7km and includes small barrier removals, de-culverting, fish passes, stage 0 restoration, constrained restoration, and re-meandering. <br /> Monitoring of the wider catchment works shows that where hedgerows and wood pasture have been created there has been a very swift response in earthworm numbers compared to adjacent sampling sites. Whilst there is no evidence of changes in nutrients or carbon storage, this would not be expected immediately. However, the partnership is committed to re-testing these sites on a 5-yearly basis. There is clear evidence through photographs and surveying of the new hedgerows and riparian restoration areas having a significant increase in flora with species such as Vetch, Red Campion, Dog Violet, and Greater Stitchwort’s now common. Where peat restoration has been carried out there is now a healthy fauna of Sphagnum Spp., Bog Asphodel, Cotton Grass, and Sundews present representing a healthy hydrology. <br /> Three large river restoration projects have been carried out in the valley bottom. These projects have been heavily monitored for hydrology, sediment transport, fish, macrophyte and terrestrial ecology. The naturalisation aimed to restore form and process, rejuvenating a range of river types and associated valley bottom systems. The project completed at Hartsop Hall, over 2.1km, saw the wetted channel area increase from 1850m2 to 23,300m2. At Goldrill Beck the project, over 1.6km, saw the wetted channel area increase by 21,590m2. Hydrological data shows that the impact on flood flows has been a mean event lag time increase of 41.3 minutes, with some events having an event lag time increase of 90 minutes. Coarse sediment is also now being stored across the valley bottom with repeat survey showing that more than 2000 m3 of sediment has been stored on one site. The original species-poor assemblage of rush pasture and semi-improved grassland has been disturbed and the vegetation has begun to diversify. The newly formed gravel bars are hosting the greatest diversity of plants, as species that are suited to disturbance and early colonisation are taking advantage. Species such as Corn Spurrey, Bottle Sedge, Fox Glove, and Devils Bit Scabious are increasing in prevalence across the sites, with the partnership now pursuing an expansion of Devils Bit Scabious habitat across the valley prior to a Marsh Fritillary Butterfly re-introduction. Several bird and butterfly species have been recorded on the river restoration sites for the first time, including Jack Snipe, Great White Egret and Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary Butterfly.<br /> |Lessons learn=The biggest success has been the meaningful partnership developed with all landowners and farmers who have worked with us over the past 10 years. A relationship of trust and respect has been built through collaboration, ensuring they are treated as a true partner, can input into design, oversee construction, and take ownership of the results. The momentum of project delivery is increasing, and this can be attributed to the commitment to building and maintaining these relationships. <br /> <br /> Funding for projects such as this can be incredibly hard to come by and the partnerships commitment to showcasing our work and communicating passionately about our objectives has resulted in significant income through private donations and crowd funders. A community far wider than Ullswater feel invested in our work. <br /> <br /> The partnership has also worked hard to improve local skills and education opportunities. Through the Riverlands project we have hosted 3 apprentices over the last 6 years, galvanising a new generation of river champions. We have worked with local contractors for all projects, providing a learning space for local construction companies to diversify into natural flood management and habitat works. The volume of work has supported numerous small contractors who are now as much a partner to the project as anyone. They have developed a deep understanding of how important it is to protect this landscape and the methods they can use to enhance it.<br /> |Project title=Ullswater Catchment Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background}}<br /> {{Motivations}}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49599 2024-03-14T12:46:00Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Name of parent multi-site project=Case_study:Ullswater Catchment Restoration<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=20210805140055 IMG 0596.JPG<br /> |Caption=Kirkstone Beck pre-restoration, a snarrow, single thread channel with revetments, embankments and little diversity<br /> }}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=Ust to Dst Hartsop Edited reduced.jpg<br /> |Caption=The completed restoration of Kirkstone Beck, with a wider river channel and diversity of features<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=2000<br /> |Project started=2019<br /> |Total cost category=500 - 1000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=Water Environment Grant, National Trust<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Specific mitigation=Flood risk to infrastructure (bridge)<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=River restoration to restore natural process and floodplain reconnection - responding to physical modifications on the waterbody<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures<br /> |Bank and bed modifications measure=Embankment removal, Diversification of in-channel features,<br /> |Floodplain / River corridor=Rejuvination of river delta, widening of river channel<br /> |Planform / Channel pattern=Widening to allow wandering sections<br /> |Social measures=partnership working with organisations including the EA, NE &amp; LDNPA, as well as the tenant farmer; site visits hosted to share project success and lessons<br /> }}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49598 2024-03-14T12:45:29Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Name of parent multi-site project=Case_study:Ullswater Catchment Restoration<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. Results will be added here once available.<br /> |Project title=Goldrill Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=DJI 0360.jpg<br /> |Caption=Goldrill Beck pre-restoration, seen here running alongside the A592<br /> }}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=DJI 0548 reduced.jpg<br /> |Caption=Goldrill Beck post-restoration, meandering across the floodplain<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=889<br /> |Project started=2018<br /> |Total cost category=500 - 1000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=Environment Agency, Water Environment Grant, National Trust<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Specific mitigation=Flood risk to infrastructure (road)<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=River restoration to restore natural process and floodplain reconnection - responding to physical modifications on the waterbody<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures<br /> |Bank and bed modifications measure=embankment removal<br /> |Floodplain / River corridor=floodplain reconnection<br /> |Planform / Channel pattern=re-meandering, ditch restoration, drain blocking<br /> |Other technical measure=wet woodland restoration through channel blocking<br /> |Social measures=partnership working with organisations including the EA, NE &amp; LDNPA, as well as the tenant farmer; community engagement, including with the local school; site visits hosted to share project success and lessons<br /> }}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Thackthwaite_catchment_restoration&diff=49597 2024-03-14T12:44:41Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.61220182298401, -2.915630526107358<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Project web site url=https://www.ucmcic.com/projects/natural-flood-management/flood-bank-reprofiling-thackthwaite/<br /> |Themes=Environmental flows and water resources, Fisheries, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Danny<br /> |Main contact surname=Teasdale<br /> |Main contact id=Ullswater CIC<br /> |Contact organisation=Ullswater Catchment Management CIC<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.ucmcic.com<br /> |Partner organisations=Environment Agency, The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Natural England, Woodland Trust, Eden Rivers Trust<br /> |Name of parent multi-site project=Case_study:Ullswater Catchment Restoration<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project picture=Failing flood bank.jpg<br /> |Picture description=Failing constructed flood levee<br /> |Project summary=Thackthwaite beck is a heavily modified watercourse. It has been straightened and dredged historically as part of previous land management actions. The beck has failing toe boards, and flood levees in the picture, which shows the extent to which the beck was trying to be retained in. This project began in 2018 to remove the flood levees and reprofile the adjacent land to allow better floodplain reconnection. Thackthwaite beck has a very large upland catchment in the Matterdale area and as such sees very high rainfall annually (2000mm+). The artificial works have been unable to cope with this rainfall and as such are failing. <br /> We are now working with the majority of landowners on this catchment to implement multiple varied improvements to either deliver habitat, river restoration or natural flood management benefits. <br /> To date we have created 25 ponds or wetland areas, made habitat improvements to over 3660m of Thackthwaite beck, through either in stream habitat improvements or riparian improvement, such as floodplain connection or tree planting. We have planted over 100,000 trees in the catchment, either as hedgerows, riparian planting or in field trees. <br /> Ullswater Catchment Management CIC are very proud of the fact that the majority of their work is on farmed land. We actively engage with the farming community and have developed trusted relationships with the farming community. The majority of our work is via invitation on farm to see what is possible.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=Initial electro-fish survey on Thackthwaite beck prior to levee removal. Results showed low numbers of Salmonids and large numbers of Minnows. This is to be expected as prior to the levee removal the beck was very canalised and could not retain finer material suitable for spawning fish. <br /> Redd counts in autumn to monitor Trout and Salmon spawning success. 2023 was the best year to date for the number of redds, and sightings of Sea Trout and Salmon. <br /> Water quality sondes have been installed by the Environment Agency, these monitor water quality, temperature and turbidity.<br /> |Lessons learn=In our opinion the most valuable lesson learnt is to work with the landowner and be open and honest from the start. By listening to the landowner it helps to understand where the most suitable intervention may be on the watercourse. This is then followed by partner working, by having multiple partners working together it allows an increase in scale of delivery. <br /> Right improvement in the right place. We have seen other individual projects being delivered which do not have the support of neighbouring landowners, and whilst this may return site specific benefits it can often be at the detriment of the wider catchment, as the works can't be replicated close by to build upon the benefits of the initial project.<br /> |Project title=Thackthwaite catchment restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background}}<br /> {{Motivations}}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Ullswater_Catchment_Restoration&diff=49596 2024-03-14T12:43:19Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.54411354028105, -2.949277369726182<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Themes=Economic aspects, Environmental flows and water resources, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=Ullswater Catchment Management CIC<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.ucmcic.com<br /> |Partner organisations=The National Trust, Cumbria River Restoration Strategy<br /> |Multi-site=Yes<br /> |Project summary=Ullswater is one of the most iconic destinations in the Lake District, attracting millions of visitors every year and home to thriving rural communities. However, decades of agricultural intensification and land use change have resulted in highly modified river and declining biodiversity. The Ullswater catchment restoration project seeks to reverse this decline in habitat and natural processes through working with landowners and local communities to foster change at a catchment scale. <br /> The project area includes the headwaters systems, tributaries, rivers, and catchment land draining into Ullswater. These systems have been historically modified to improve the valley bottom areas for farming, with straightening, deepening, embanking, revetments, and width rationalisation a common sight. Hidden alterations to the functioning of the system are also present with underdrainage significantly impacting on the natural hydrology. The consequence of such high levels of modification combined with a changing climate has increased the flood risk to local communities. This is coupled with frequent seasonal drying of main river systems during periods of reduced rainfall. Valley floor modification is significant, and the combined effect of all changes has been to severely degrade the wet environment with consequent losses of biodiversity.<br /> In response the Ullswater catchment Partnership has been working to deliver management initiatives and physical interventions for almost 10years. The partners have delivered 282 projects, including over 13km of river restoration, 46ha of water storage, 12km of hedgerow creation, 497ha of wood pasture restoration and 249ha of peat and wetland restoration. A key large-scale achievement has been the river and valley bottom naturalisation work which stretches from the bottom of Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater and includes large areas of the Brothers Water SSSI and the River Eden and tributaries SSSI. <br /> Numerous farm scale initiatives have been carried out across the catchment with the partnership carrying out restoration across a total area of 843ha. The interventions across the catchment include:<br /> • River restoration through de-culverting, embankment removal, small barrier removal, stage 0 interventions, and re-meandering over 13.7km<br /> • Pond creation and offline water storage totalling 46ha.<br /> • Hedgerow creation and restoration and riparian corridor restoration over 16km<br /> • Wood pasture creation and restoration across 497ha<br /> • Peat and wetland restoration over 249ha<br /> The project outputs are monitored through several approaches including repeat freshwater and terrestrial ecological surveying, soil nutrient, organic matter and carbon sequestration analysis, sediment storage analysis, hydrological monitoring of large interventions, fish surveying and redd counting and citizen science monitoring initiatives.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=Work in the Ullswater catchment has comprised numerous small-scale farm-based interventions through to larger strategic works to naturalise the bigger watercourse and floodplain areas. To date 282 projects have been completed with a combined area of 843ha. <br /> 249ha of upland peat restoration has included 16,200 peat bunds, 12,000m of peat hag re-profiling and 21ha of sphagnum inoculation. Wood pasture restoration and creation covers 497ha and combined with 16km of hedgerow creation over 150,000 trees have been planted. Pond and wetland creation has resulted in 46ha of standing water habitat. River restoration has been carried out over 13.7km and includes small barrier removals, de-culverting, fish passes, stage 0 restoration, constrained restoration, and re-meandering. <br /> Monitoring of the wider catchment works shows that where hedgerows and wood pasture have been created there has been a very swift response in earthworm numbers compared to adjacent sampling sites. Whilst there is no evidence of changes in nutrients or carbon storage, this would not be expected immediately. However, the partnership is committed to re-testing these sites on a 5-yearly basis. There is clear evidence through photographs and surveying of the new hedgerows and riparian restoration areas having a significant increase in flora with species such as Vetch, Red Campion, Dog Violet, and Greater Stitchwort’s now common. Where peat restoration has been carried out there is now a healthy fauna of Sphagnum Spp., Bog Asphodel, Cotton Grass, and Sundews present representing a healthy hydrology. <br /> Three large river restoration projects have been carried out in the valley bottom. These projects have been heavily monitored for hydrology, sediment transport, fish, macrophyte and terrestrial ecology. The naturalisation aimed to restore form and process, rejuvenating a range of river types and associated valley bottom systems. The project completed at Hartsop Hall, over 2.1km, saw the wetted channel area increase from 1850m2 to 23,300m2. At Goldrill Beck the project, over 1.6km, saw the wetted channel area increase by 21,590m2. Hydrological data shows that the impact on flood flows has been a mean event lag time increase of 41.3 minutes, with some events having an event lag time increase of 90 minutes. Coarse sediment is also now being stored across the valley bottom with repeat survey showing that more than 2000 m3 of sediment has been stored on one site. The original species-poor assemblage of rush pasture and semi-improved grassland has been disturbed and the vegetation has begun to diversify. The newly formed gravel bars are hosting the greatest diversity of plants, as species that are suited to disturbance and early colonisation are taking advantage. Species such as Corn Spurrey, Bottle Sedge, Fox Glove, and Devils Bit Scabious are increasing in prevalence across the sites, with the partnership now pursuing an expansion of Devils Bit Scabious habitat across the valley prior to a Marsh Fritillary Butterfly re-introduction. Several bird and butterfly species have been recorded on the river restoration sites for the first time, including Jack Snipe, Great White Egret and Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary Butterfly.<br /> |Lessons learn=The biggest success has been the meaningful partnership developed with all landowners and farmers who have worked with us over the past 10 years. A relationship of trust and respect has been built through collaboration, ensuring they are treated as a true partner, can input into design, oversee construction, and take ownership of the results. The momentum of project delivery is increasing, and this can be attributed to the commitment to building and maintaining these relationships. <br /> <br /> Funding for projects such as this can be incredibly hard to come by and the partnerships commitment to showcasing our work and communicating passionately about our objectives has resulted in significant income through private donations and crowd funders. A community far wider than Ullswater feel invested in our work. <br /> <br /> The partnership has also worked hard to improve local skills and education opportunities. Through the Riverlands project we have hosted 3 apprentices over the last 6 years, galvanising a new generation of river champions. We have worked with local contractors for all projects, providing a learning space for local construction companies to diversify into natural flood management and habitat works. The volume of work has supported numerous small contractors who are now as much a partner to the project as anyone. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Ullswater_Catchment_Restoration&diff=49595 2024-03-14T12:34:34Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.54411354028105, -2.949277369726182<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Themes=Economic aspects, Environmental flows and water resources, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=Ullswater Catchment Management CIC<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.ucmcic.com<br /> |Multi-site=Yes<br /> |Project summary=Ullswater is one of the most iconic destinations in the Lake District, attracting millions of visitors every year and home to thriving rural communities. However, decades of agricultural intensification and land use change have resulted in highly modified river and declining biodiversity. The Ullswater catchment restoration project seeks to reverse this decline in habitat and natural processes through working with landowners and local communities to foster change at a catchment scale. <br /> The project area includes the headwaters systems, tributaries, rivers, and catchment land draining into Ullswater. These systems have been historically modified to improve the valley bottom areas for farming, with straightening, deepening, embanking, revetments, and width rationalisation a common sight. Hidden alterations to the functioning of the system are also present with underdrainage significantly impacting on the natural hydrology. The consequence of such high levels of modification combined with a changing climate has increased the flood risk to local communities. This is coupled with frequent seasonal drying of main river systems during periods of reduced rainfall. Valley floor modification is significant, and the combined effect of all changes has been to severely degrade the wet environment with consequent losses of biodiversity.<br /> In response the Ullswater catchment Partnership has been working to deliver management initiatives and physical interventions for almost 10years. The partners have delivered 282 projects, including over 13km of river restoration, 46ha of water storage, 12km of hedgerow creation, 497ha of wood pasture restoration and 249ha of peat and wetland restoration. A key large-scale achievement has been the river and valley bottom naturalisation work which stretches from the bottom of Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater and includes large areas of the Brothers Water SSSI and the River Eden and tributaries SSSI. <br /> Numerous farm scale initiatives have been carried out across the catchment with the partnership carrying out restoration across a total area of 843ha. The interventions across the catchment include:<br /> • River restoration through de-culverting, embankment removal, small barrier removal, stage 0 interventions, and re-meandering over 13.7km<br /> • Pond creation and offline water storage totalling 46ha.<br /> • Hedgerow creation and restoration and riparian corridor restoration over 16km<br /> • Wood pasture creation and restoration across 497ha<br /> • Peat and wetland restoration over 249ha<br /> The project outputs are monitored through several approaches including repeat freshwater and terrestrial ecological surveying, soil nutrient, organic matter and carbon sequestration analysis, sediment storage analysis, hydrological monitoring of large interventions, fish surveying and redd counting and citizen science monitoring initiatives.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=Work in the Ullswater catchment has comprised numerous small-scale farm-based interventions through to larger strategic works to naturalise the bigger watercourse and floodplain areas. To date 282 projects have been completed with a combined area of 843ha. <br /> 249ha of upland peat restoration has included 16,200 peat bunds, 12,000m of peat hag re-profiling and 21ha of sphagnum inoculation. Wood pasture restoration and creation covers 497ha and combined with 16km of hedgerow creation over 150,000 trees have been planted. Pond and wetland creation has resulted in 46ha of standing water habitat. River restoration has been carried out over 13.7km and includes small barrier removals, de-culverting, fish passes, stage 0 restoration, constrained restoration, and re-meandering. <br /> Monitoring of the wider catchment works shows that where hedgerows and wood pasture have been created there has been a very swift response in earthworm numbers compared to adjacent sampling sites. Whilst there is no evidence of changes in nutrients or carbon storage, this would not be expected immediately. However, the partnership is committed to re-testing these sites on a 5-yearly basis. There is clear evidence through photographs and surveying of the new hedgerows and riparian restoration areas having a significant increase in flora with species such as Vetch, Red Campion, Dog Violet, and Greater Stitchwort’s now common. Where peat restoration has been carried out there is now a healthy fauna of Sphagnum Spp., Bog Asphodel, Cotton Grass, and Sundews present representing a healthy hydrology. <br /> Three large river restoration projects have been carried out in the valley bottom. These projects have been heavily monitored for hydrology, sediment transport, fish, macrophyte and terrestrial ecology. The naturalisation aimed to restore form and process, rejuvenating a range of river types and associated valley bottom systems. The project completed at Hartsop Hall, over 2.1km, saw the wetted channel area increase from 1850m2 to 23,300m2. At Goldrill Beck the project, over 1.6km, saw the wetted channel area increase by 21,590m2. Hydrological data shows that the impact on flood flows has been a mean event lag time increase of 41.3 minutes, with some events having an event lag time increase of 90 minutes. Coarse sediment is also now being stored across the valley bottom with repeat survey showing that more than 2000 m3 of sediment has been stored on one site. The original species-poor assemblage of rush pasture and semi-improved grassland has been disturbed and the vegetation has begun to diversify. The newly formed gravel bars are hosting the greatest diversity of plants, as species that are suited to disturbance and early colonisation are taking advantage. Species such as Corn Spurrey, Bottle Sedge, Fox Glove, and Devils Bit Scabious are increasing in prevalence across the sites, with the partnership now pursuing an expansion of Devils Bit Scabious habitat across the valley prior to a Marsh Fritillary Butterfly re-introduction. Several bird and butterfly species have been recorded on the river restoration sites for the first time, including Jack Snipe, Great White Egret and Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary Butterfly.<br /> |Lessons learn=The biggest success has been the meaningful partnership developed with all landowners and farmers who have worked with us over the past 10 years. A relationship of trust and respect has been built through collaboration, ensuring they are treated as a true partner, can input into design, oversee construction, and take ownership of the results. The momentum of project delivery is increasing, and this can be attributed to the commitment to building and maintaining these relationships. <br /> <br /> Funding for projects such as this can be incredibly hard to come by and the partnerships commitment to showcasing our work and communicating passionately about our objectives has resulted in significant income through private donations and crowd funders. A community far wider than Ullswater feel invested in our work. <br /> <br /> The partnership has also worked hard to improve local skills and education opportunities. Through the Riverlands project we have hosted 3 apprentices over the last 6 years, galvanising a new generation of river champions. We have worked with local contractors for all projects, providing a learning space for local construction companies to diversify into natural flood management and habitat works. The volume of work has supported numerous small contractors who are now as much a partner to the project as anyone. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Ullswater_Catchment_Restoration&diff=49594 2024-03-14T12:29:32Z

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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49112 2024-01-17T14:30:08Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=20210805140055 IMG 0596.JPG<br /> |Caption=Kirkstone Beck pre-restoration, a snarrow, single thread channel with revetments, embankments and little diversity<br /> }}<br /> {{Case study image<br /> |File name=Ust to Dst Hartsop Edited reduced.jpg<br /> |Caption=The completed restoration of Kirkstone Beck, with a wider river channel and diversity of features<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=2000<br /> |Project started=2019<br /> |Total cost category=500 - 1000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=Water Environment Grant, National Trust<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Specific mitigation=Flood risk to infrastructure (bridge)<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=River restoration to restore natural process and floodplain reconnection - responding to physical modifications on the waterbody<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures<br /> |Bank and bed modifications measure=Embankment removal, Diversification of in-channel features,<br /> |Floodplain / River corridor=Rejuvination of river delta, widening of river channel<br /> |Planform / Channel pattern=Widening to allow wandering sections<br /> |Social measures=partnership working with organisations including the EA, NE &amp; LDNPA, as well as the tenant farmer; site visits hosted to share project success and lessons<br /> }}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

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<p>AliceJames: The completed restoration of Kirkstone Beck, with a wider river channel and diversity of features</p> <hr /> <div>The completed restoration of Kirkstone Beck, with a wider river channel and diversity of features</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=File:20210805140055_IMG_0596.JPG&diff=49110 2024-01-17T14:26:38Z

<p>AliceJames: Kirkstone Beck pre-restoration, a snarrow, single thread channel with revetments, embankments and little diversity</p> <hr /> <div>Kirkstone Beck pre-restoration, a snarrow, single thread channel with revetments, embankments and little diversity</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49109 2024-01-17T14:11:40Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49108 2024-01-17T14:08:54Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=2000<br /> |Project started=2019<br /> |Total cost category=500 - 1000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=Water Environment Grant, National Trust<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Specific mitigation=Flood risk to infrastructure (bridge)<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=River restoration to restore natural process and floodplain reconnection - responding to physical modifications on the waterbody<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49107 2024-01-17T14:08:21Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=2000<br /> |Project started=2019<br /> |Total cost category=500 - 1000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=Water Environment Grant, National Trust<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations}}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49106 2024-01-17T14:04:51Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along ~2km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background}}<br /> {{Motivations}}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49105 2024-01-17T14:01:00Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.4999108916401, -2.9275909414551604<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=Alice.James<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Located upstream of Brothers Water in the Ullswater valley, Kirkstone Beck runs through the valley bottom at Hartsop Hall Farm. The beck, and its tributaries, had been subjected to significant modifications, straightened and with large embankments completely disconnecting the channel from the floodplain. <br /> <br /> However, Hartsop Hall Farm is one of the few farms in the Lake District which still produces all its own silage and hay on-farm. With limited valley bottom land, every little bit of floodplain is therefore vital to the success of the farm business. In 2019 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working closely with the tenant farmer to develop a river restoration design which allowed the development of natural processes within a confined area, protecting the meadows that are relied upon to feed livestock over winter. Other partners in the scheme design included the Environment Agency and Natural England. <br /> <br /> An interest in potential change was triggered by Storm Desmond in 2015, during which the only access bridge to the farmstead was damaged and a novel solution was sought. After consultation with the tenant farmer to agree which bits of land could be given over to the river, the resulting design aimed for a continuous thread of restoration along 2.1km of channel. The aims of the project were to restore natural processes to this length of river, improve the SSSI condition of Brothers Water immediately downstream of the restored reach, and deliver a sustainable, flood resilient access solution to the farmstead. <br /> <br /> The project was delivered in 2022. Embankments were set back from the channel, retaining protection for the meadows but allowing the river much more space. T-junction style tributary confluences were restored to wide, wandering systems, and the narrow single-span bridge was replaced with a wider double-span crossing. In the fens of Brothers Water, the design took a process-led approach, blocking the existing channel with large woody debris to encourage the natural evolution of an anastomosing system across the delta. <br /> <br /> Initial analysis shows that the total river area has increased significantly, from 1,850m2 to 23,300m2; that’s more than 12 times as much river habitat available post-restoration compared to the baseline. Considering the level of compromise required on this project, these figures are impressive. Furthermore, flood events since construction have seen dynamic changes throughout the restored areas, with channels shifting through three large boulder wandering sections (semi-permanent gravel bar consisting of larger, boulder-type material). Large areas of open standing water have also been created, adding an important habitat which is so often missing from the landscape.<br /> |Project title=Kirkstone Beck River Restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Image gallery}}<br /> {{Image gallery end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case study subcatchment}}<br /> {{Site}}<br /> {{Project background}}<br /> {{Motivations}}<br /> {{Measures}}<br /> {{Hydromorphological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Biological quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical quality elements header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Other responses header}}<br /> {{End table}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring documents end}}<br /> {{Additional Documents}}<br /> {{Additional Documents end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary Information}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Kirkstone_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49104 2024-01-17T14:00:19Z

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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49103 2024-01-16T17:00:29Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49102 2024-01-16T16:55:37Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49101 2024-01-16T16:51:06Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49100 2024-01-16T16:48:52Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. 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AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=File:DJI_0548_reduced.jpg&diff=49099 2024-01-16T16:48:39Z

<p>AliceJames: Goldrill Beck post-restoration, meandering across the floodplain</p> <hr /> <div>Goldrill Beck post-restoration, meandering across the floodplain</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=File:DJI_0360.jpg&diff=49098 2024-01-16T16:45:20Z

<p>AliceJames: Goldrill Beck pre-restoration, seen here running alongside the A592.</p> <hr /> <div>Goldrill Beck pre-restoration, seen here running alongside the A592.</div>

AliceJames https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Goldrill_Beck_River_Restoration&diff=49097 2024-01-16T16:41:52Z

<p>AliceJames: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case study status<br /> |Approval status=Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=54.515515644316025, -2.922136535021247<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=Complete<br /> |Themes=Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Monitoring, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=England<br /> |Main contact forename=Alice<br /> |Main contact surname=James<br /> |Main contact id=AliceJames<br /> |Contact organisation=The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.nationaltrust.org.uk/<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project summary=Goldrill Beck runs from Brothers Water to Ullswater, in the Lake District, and is part of the River Eden and Tributaries SSSI. The beck was historically straightened, before the date of the earliest maps of the area, and subsequent years have seen further modifications including the addition of increasingly substantial revetments and large embankments. The channel was devoid of any features, and until recently, there was also a regular cycle of gravel removal. Stripped of its natural processes, the resulting channel was an exceptionally effective conveyor of water and sediment, moving large quantities of each rapidly downstream. <br /> <br /> In 2015, Storm Desmond devastated communities across Cumbria. Breaking many meteorological records, the storm event resulted in 7,465 homes being flooded. Roads were closed in 107 locations, with 354.8km of highway damaged (Cumbria County Council 2018). A long section of the A591 was washed away, cutting the Lake District in half for over five months while the road was repaired. In Ullswater, the A592 is a similarly significant road through the valley, but Goldrill Beck ran adjacent to the road with it’s western bank forming the wall between road and river. The flood brought the fear that this vital transport link could suffer the same fate as the A591 in the next storm. <br /> <br /> In 2018 the National Trust’s Riverlands project, part of a national programme of river and catchment restoration work, began working with the Trust’s agricultural tenant farmer, the Environment Agency and Natural England to develop an ambitious river restoration scheme. The aim was to protect the A592, deliver process-based restoration, enhance the SSSI condition, and improve floodplain ecology. <br /> <br /> The restoration design was completed in 2019. Having considered several options, a decision was made to re-meander the river across the floodplain. The new course would follow the preferred course of the water as indicated by a direct rainfall model, which simulated surface-water flows over the floodplain based on its topography. This option was chosen as it would immediately remove the risk to the A592, as well as provide a course for the river through the improved floodplain, where there was concern about the potential for uncontrolled and ongoing silt releases into the SSSI from other options. <br /> <br /> The final design included re-meandering the entire reach that abutted the A592, as well as adding bifurcations, ditch restoration, pond creation, a mixture of drain blocking and de-culverting, and encouraging the development of anastomosing channels through an existing wet woodland. A significant length of embankment was also removed downstream of the primary restoration reach, enabling the reconnection of the river and floodplain. <br /> <br /> Construction took place in summer 2021, taking 12 weeks to complete. The river has now increased in length from 889m to 2,500m, and is fully connected to its floodplain. Across the site natural processes have been allowed to proceed without interruption. The change since the project was completed has been dramatic, and the dominance of natural processes in evident. One of the bifurcated channels has blocked and unblocked several times, and large gravel bars have formed. Eroding riverbanks are creating valuable river-cliff habitat, and large woody debris has arrived, lodging in the channel. The wet woodland is rapidly changing, forming new channels with fallen trees and vegetation pushing the water in different directions. Floodplain habitat is significantly wetter, with ephemeral and permanent ponds and an increasing variety of plant species. Over the course of two winters, 2,170m3 of sediment has been stored across the site; this material would once have been conveyed rapidly downstream and added to the flood risk for local communities. Data analysis of the flood attenuation performance of the scheme is ongoing, with data collected from two years pre- restoration and two years post-restoration. Initial results from a single storm event show a delay between up and downstream flood peaks of over an hour, although it’s expected that aggregated data from all the events across the monitoring period will show a more modest delay on average. <br /> <br /> The area is grazed by cattle, the same herd as had previously grazed the site pre-restoration. They are supporting the breaking-up of the species-poor rush pasture, which is also being disrupted by regular inundation from the river and deposition of sediment. Finally, in January 2023, 16 Black Poplar Populus nigra ssp. betuifolia were planted on the floodplain. One of the rarest trees in Britain, its population has dwindled to an estimated 7,000 individuals across the country. The Black Poplars planted at Goldrill were propagated from a grove of 35 veteran trees in London, which had been saved by conservation specialist Jamie Simpson after genetic analysis confirmed this was most likely the only known surviving wild population left in the UK, and the only population with a 50:50 ratio of female and male specimens. Close of these individuals are the trees now standing on the floodplain at Goldrill.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=The results of four years of monitoring data from pressure transducers at the up and down stream extents of the restoration are being analysed. 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