Upload
nickolas-sowersby
View
213
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
1
Non UU-Owned CatchmentsWoodhead - MFF
2Moors for the Future
Moors for the Future; Skilled and Experienced Delivery 600 hectares
1200 tonnes of lime and fertiliser
120 tonnes prilled grass seed
20 hectares geo-jute
1950 tonnes heather brash
5km to nearest road
Much winter work!
3Moors for the Future
Contributing Partners
• Peak District National Park Authority*• Natural England• Environment Agency• National Trust• United Utilities• Yorkshire Water• Severn Trent Water• Derbyshire County Council• RSPB• Heritage Lottery Fund• EU Commission• Defra• English Heritage
4Black Hill Summit 2003
5Black Hill Summit July 2008 – 6 years of successful project delivery
6
MoorLIFE
An opportunity to finish the job started in 2002
7
MoorLIFEhttp://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/compilations/documents/natcompilation08.pdf
Inside PDNP 497 Ha approximately £4.5 million
Outside PDNP 358 Ha approximately £1.2 million
United Utilities £504k
Yorkshire Water £415k
Natural England £208k
National Trust £209k
Environment Agency £88k
8
Conservation Plan Project
9
Non – owned catchment: Woodhead
10
MoorLIFE Woodhead Estate East of Bleaklow Head, possibly the most degraded
upland peat in Europe and it is in a National Park
11
Woodhead project
• Poor raw water quality
• 43,000cu Metres of sediment per year
• flood risk due to rapid surface drainage
• failing to meet SSSI target condition
• major carbon source
• poor agricultural productivity
12Moors for the Future
Non – owned catchment: Woodhead
• Gully Blocking : can be over 3m deep, 139 km of gullies will be blocked.
• Brash Spreading: The area of bare peat is estimated to be 50 hectares. Includes cutting, delivery and spreading of heather brash onto the bare peat areas.
• Bare peat re-vegetation: spreading chopped up heather brash, on steeper slopes a geo textile material is required. Then a nurse grass seed is sown with successive additions of lime and fertilizer for four out of the first five years
• Plug Plants: These are small plants, mainly Eriophorum angustifolium, Eriophorum vaginatum and Empetrum nigra.
• Hydro-seeding: Hydro-seeding seeds of Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralix, Erica cinerea and Vaccinium myrtillus by helicopter of cleaned seed.
• Sphagnum: helicopter application, in suspension, of embryonic plants of 5 Sphagnum species and Polytrichum commune.
13Moors for the Future
Sphagnum propagation
14
….and the MoorLIFE project will significantly improve all these issues