The River Rother at Catcliffe (and many other places) has been ‘messed with’ for hundreds of years – its course has altered many times and it has been artificially straightened for navigational purposes. The stretch through Catcliffe upstream of Treeton Lane is very straight, heavily silted and devoid of river life. A new scheme will bring a more naturalistic feel back to the river.
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Gravel embankments will be removed along 500m of the Allt an t-Slugain burn near Braemar to restore habitat for the rare freshwater pearl mussel and for salmon.
The embankments were constructed in the 1980s to prevent the burn from spilling onto the adjacent grazing land during high flows. However, in some cases embankments can increase flood risk downstream by reducing temporary floodplain water storage. They can also affect the river channel by increasing flow speed and depth, leading to riverbed erosion, and reducing in stream habitat for mussels and fish.
This is an article from Rivers of Carbon in Australia: "Water is not the enemy, it is water velocity (speed) that causes the damage. Australian rivers are meant to be rough and bumpy and riparian vegetation can provide protection from flood impacts along with individual and cumulative benefits to landholders up and down stream."
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You can still book onto the BHS Conference - "Hydrologists make the water go round".
For £120 (non member), £90 (BHS member), £60 (student) you can attend day 2 (31st August) which includes a workshop being organised by the River Restoration Centre on hydrological monitoring and river restoration.
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This is a paper by Tummers et al. (2016) which looks at evaluating the effectiveness of multiple measures to increase longitudinal connectivity on the River Deerness.
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This report presents a summary of discussions at a conference on upland water management held in Leeds in January 2016. It includes information on natural flood management, water colour and carbon and the water industry and the upland economy.
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This report, produced by the Environment Agency, outlines projects funded under the Catchment Partnership Action Fund (CPAF) in 2015 to 2016.
Three finalists from Spain and the United States are in the running for the Thiess International Riverprize.
Congratulations to the teams behind the efforts in the Segura (Spain), Elwha (USA) and Niagara (USA) Rivers!
The teams reached finalist stage for a range of incredible initiatives:
The River Forth Fisheries Trust has received continued support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Scottish Government, Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s Water Environment Fund (SEPA WEF), City of Edinburgh and West Lothian Councils to deliver RiverLife: Almond & Avon, a project totalling £6.7 Million.
From National Geographic: "In August 2014, workers completed the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, as the final part of the 210-foot-high (64-meter-high) Glines Canyon Dam was dismantled on the Elwha River in northwestern Washington State.