]> 2026-04-09T03:46:10+00:00 Case study:River Ray Rural Flooding 500 en Approved National Farmers Union JBA Consulting National Farmers Union Yes No Yes false No 51.8453486,-1.1548346 Tom National Farmers Union Ormesher ,, Surface drainage systems improved,,,, Surface drainage systems improved 23727 JBA Consulting, 34 Ray.png 2014 2456658.5 Complete In light of the winter 2013 to 2014 flooding, farmers asked the National Farmers Union (NFU) for assistance in developing pragmatic options to help reduce flood damages to agricultural businesses and rural communities. In an attempt to build consensus on developing community driven approaches to flood and coastal risk management (FCRM), a 2-part investigation based on the River Ray catchment in Oxfordshire was made by NFU South East. • A survey of the attitudes of farmers in the catchment to conventional and novel approaches to flood risk management received responses from approximately 47% of all catchment landowners. • A hydrological modelling study considered the relative impacts of various land use and land management scenarios on the severity of flooding events. Scenarios included comparisons between watercourse maintenance, pond creation/enhanced flood storage, soil compaction, urbanisation effects and climate change predictions. The unconstrained modelling scenarios predicted: • damage reductions of 61% (agricultural) and 64% (property) from watercourse maintenance • 31–37% reduction in agricultural damages from additional pond storage • ±34% (agriculture) and ±166% (urban) damage sensitivity from unconstrained soil compaction • 15% damage increase from climate change These are not 'real world' predictions but indicate the relative gains possible from a combination of approaches where consensus can be reached. River Ray Rural Flooding river ray rural flooding http://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/projects/34_riverray.pdf No Ray ray Flood risk management Habitat and biodiversity Land use management - agriculture Water quality 2018-11-05T16:17:26Z 2458428.1787732 2018-11-05T16:37:21Z 2458428.1926042 River Ray Rural Flooding 500 [2,"smw_unitnotallowed","\u00a3"] River Ray Rural Flooding# ERR7c4821480ce616a602940635f30465e2