While the #EnvironmentAgency is responsible for main #rivermanagement, #InternalDrainageBoards (#IDBs) play a key role in maintaining smaller #rivers, #drainage channels, ordinary #watercourses, and other infrastructure such as #pumpingstations and #floodrisk assets within their #catchment areas. 🌊
Pleasure to talk today at the Wetter Farming & Paludiculture Workshop at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in Peterborough. Great to share thinking about how #internaldrainageboards can help retain water SAFELY in England's lowland peat landscapes such as the Fens, Humberhead Levels, and Somerset Levels.
Robert Caudwell, Chair of ADA and chair of the Lowland Agricultural Peat Task Force talking about the next steps for multifunctional water storage
Paul Burrows, Chief Executive of the Middle Level Commissioners presenting in Ely at the Fenland SOILS conference. With map of the Middle level system behind him
Slides about IDBs and the Lowland Agricultural Peat Small Infrastructure Pilot grant scheme funded by Defra
Slides about IDBs and the Lowland Agricultural Peat Small Infrastructure Pilot grant scheme funded by the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
Pleasure to be able to speak today at Fenland SOIL Conference in Ely about #internaldrainageboards. Thinking about the water level management challenges & opportunities for our lowland landscape & peat soils. IDBs watercourse networks & assets are a key part in retaining & distributing water safely
In October ADA and Defra discussed #bufferstrip stewardship options for lowland watercourses maintained by #internaldrainageboards and other risk management authorities. Main topics included deposition of arisings and best practice for channel/bankside maintenance 👇
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Many #internaldrainageboards officers here with LAPSIP small infrastructure pilots to retain water safely to conserve our lowland peat soils.
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Gnawing next to the River Stour in Canterbury
Looking at a repair to an embankment by River Stour IDB and Natural England following beaver access damage.
Beaver dam penning water about 50cm
Paw marks in the mud on a beaver dam
Fantastic couple of days in East Kent with environment officers of #internaldrainageboards from across England and the Canal & Rivers Trust learning about beavers ecology and interaction with lowland & embarked water management infrastructure. 1/2
