]> 2026-04-10T21:45:22+00:00 Case study:Bow Brook Living Landscape 500 en press release Video summarising the project Approved Introducing large woody debris Soft erosion solutions Bank reprofiling Cattle drinkers Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Environment Agency Great Britain Yes No Yes false Bow Brook Farm Relict Channel.jpg Bow Brook Hazel Faggots.JPG Bow Brook Mill Farm After.JPG Bow Brook Farm Relict Channel Bow Brook Hazel Faggots Bow Brook Mill Farm After No 52.210657207483,-2.0853424072266 Lucy_WWT Lucy Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Wood Arable reversion to wildflower meadow Soil Health Plan Introducing large woody debris, Soft erosion solutions, Bank reprofiling, Cattle drinkers,,Creation of wetland, Fencing, Tree planting, Pollarding, Control of invasive species,, ,Arable reversion to wildflower meadow, Soil Health Plan,Landowners advised, Flylife course, A newly formed relationship with the University of Worcester has created mutual benefits for both parties. A Sonde collects data and the university use this within their courses and final year projects, which we receive a copy of. 12485 Environment Agency 100m backwater channel (Sept 2013) Bow Brook 100m backwater channel Sept 2013.JPG Complete Through the Bow Brook Living Landscape project we are developing a coherent network linked by corridors that can provide benefits for people as well as for biodiversity. The catchment is largely rural and is intensively farmed and drained. This combined with erosion from cattle and unfenced banks are loading pollutants into the brook. Since the 1960s the town at the headwaters of the brook and many of the villages have increased dramatically in size raising pressures from sewage outfalls. Farmer meetings have been essential in drawing together the community on topics that are not only of interest to the Wildlife Trust but also those actually working on the land. The EA approached WWT to work with them in 2011 to help to improve WFD status in Worcestershire. The Bow Brook is classed as Poor for Phosphate and Moderate for fish. The EA provided funding and support throughout the project. The capital works on the Bow Brook are split into two categories: firstly to reduce diffuse pollution and second to increase wildlife habitat, particularly for fish. Around 14,725m2 of open water wetland has been created, working on approximately 20% of the main channels length. Rural diffuse pollution projects across 8 sites include cattle drinkers; fencing key sections and rural sustainable drainage pools. We have reverted arable fields into wild flower meadows reducing nutrient inputs in the catchment and directly alongside the brook’s banks, channelling the surrounding arable field’s drainage into the pools. Fish habitat projects are spread across 6 locations including hazel faggot woody debris as deflectors to flush silts from the gravel; reprofiling sections of the dredged banks, to increase bank diversity to the over deepened channel; and the creation of additional braids of channel with deeper resting pools, shallow fringes and online pools. Bow Brook Living Landscape bow brook living landscape No Warwickshire Avon Severn Creation of wetland Fencing Tree planting Pollarding Control of invasive species Bow Bk - Shell to conf R Avon (Warks) bow bk - shell to conf r avon (warks) Landowners advised Flylife course 100 - 1000 km² 88 Less than 100 m Bow Bk - Shell to conf R Avon (Warks) GB109054043712 Fisheries Habitat and biodiversity Land use management - agriculture Monitoring Water quality GB109054043712 2014-02-25T11:30:32Z 2456713.979537 2017-06-06T12:00:17Z 2457911.0001968 Bow Brook Living Landscape 500 1 plainlist 5 [[Category:Case study]] [[Project title::!Bow Brook Living Landscape]] [[Subcatchment title::Bow Bk - Shell to conf R Avon (Warks)]] Bow Brook Living Landscape# QUERYbb2abc25eb652fd745fcf9f42dea40c3