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Oliver Burke and Heather Ball
Improving the River Nene The Nene Valley Nature Improvement Area
Tidal limit, -1m
Northampton
Peterborough
Source, 146m
Navigation
Elevation
Distance
Making space for nature
Nature Improvement
Area components
• Strong existing partnership
• Coherent landscape unit around 50,000ha – already Living
Landscape and Futurescape
• Special Protection Area/Ramsar/SSSI at its heart – much in
unfavourable status or at risk
• Defra Integrated Catchment Management Pilot - Ecological status of
rivers mainly moderate, most water bodies heavily modified
• Growth area – significant development already happening, more
proposed
Why the Nene Valley?
The 12 NIAs
This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Northamptonshire County Council: Licence No. 100019331. Published 13/09/2012.
See inset below for detail
Whittlebury
1. Growth and development will support, value and benefit the natural environment
resulting in a sustainable funding source and delivery of improvements to the
ecological network.
2. Enhance awareness of, access to and benefits from the Nene Valley for growing
local communities in a sustainable and sympathetic way, while ensuring that the
designated sites at the core are brought into/remain in favourable condition.
3. Improve ecological status of the river and enhance ecosystem service provision.
4. Through effective engagement with farmers and landowners maintain, restore and
create BAP habitats and implement sustainable land management practices to
strengthen the ecological network.
5. Investigate the potential to market the ecosystem services provided by the Nene
Valley by developing and trialling tools and models for Payments for Ecosystem
Services.
NIA Objectives
Partnership
• Natural Development Officer
• River Restoration Advisor
• Land Advisor
• Post-Doctoral Researcher
• Project Manager
• Project board and working groups
NIA Project team
Organisation
NIA Project Board
NIA River Restoration
Working Group
NIA Land Advice
Working Group
Catchment
Sensitive Farming
Partnership
Integrated Catchment
Management Plan
• NIA River Restoration Advisor
• NIA Land Advisor
• Environment Agency
• River Restoration Centre
• Wildlife Trust
• River Nene Regional Park
• Peterborough City Council
• Northamptonshire County Council
• Northampton Borough Council
Local Nature
Partnership
2nd River Basin
Management Plan Local Enterprise
Partnerships
Revital-Ise
• Water Framework Directive
– Navigation
– Flood risk management
– Growth
– Agriculture
• Existing projects:
– Catchment Plan
– Backchannels
– CSF
River Restoration – issues & drivers
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Key issues: diffuse pollution, water abstraction, heavily modified river morphology (navigation and flood
risk management)
Outputs (by March 2015):
• Informing restoration plans for each reach of the River Nene and targeted reaches of its tributaries
• Incorporation of river restoration measures within whole farm plans (link with Land Advisor role)
• 10 projects delivered contributing to achieving ‘Good Ecological Status’.
Outcomes (by March 2015):
• Measures needed to improve 44km of river for invertebrates and 55km for fish included in Nene
Integrated Catchment Management Plan (which will inform 2nd River Basin Management Plan,
2014)
• Measures identified, agreed and included in Nene Integrated Catchment Management Plan (which
will inform 2nd River Basin Management Plan, 2014) to see overall status improvements on 6 water
bodies by 2021.
• Localised improvements in invertebrate assemblages at 10 remediation/enhancement sites within 2
years of work being completed.
Project outline
• Backchannels & backwaters (away from navigation channel)
• Areas with known issues e.g. low flows at Duston, identified through
Urban Studies, backchannels project
• Areas where opportunities (funding/changing land use) may be
available/exist e.g. Urban areas, Enterprise Zone – also likely to be
subject to new or increased pressure or impacts
• Catchment Sensitive Farming is addressing agricultural diffuse
pollution in upper catchment (link to Land Advisor objective)
Prioritisation
Urban Studies
Backchannels
Channel conditions
Restoration options
Restoration options
Restoration options
www.nenevalleynia.org
• Heather Ball, Nene Valley Project Manager
– [email protected], 01604 774032
• Oliver Burke, Director of Living Landscapes (NIA Board Chair)
– [email protected], 01954 713507
• Simon Whitton, River Restoration Advisor
– [email protected], 07909 863963
[email protected] 01234 752979 www.therrc.co.uk
Scaling up our Aspirations for River Restoration and
Management
14TH ANNUAL NETWORK CONFERENCE
The RRC would like to thank the sponsors of the RRC Annual Conference 2013 who support discounted places