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To ensure that the failing waterbodies achieve Good Ecological Status under the WFD, the Ribble Rivers Trust aims to improve the habitat and connectivity in order to generate sustainable fish populations. The creation of riparian buffer zones will reduce diffuse pollution from farmland and roads, and some upland drainage grips are to be blocked to encourage a sustainable return to natural flow regimes. | To ensure that the failing waterbodies achieve Good Ecological Status under the WFD, the Ribble Rivers Trust aims to improve the habitat and connectivity in order to generate sustainable fish populations. The creation of riparian buffer zones will reduce diffuse pollution from farmland and roads, and some upland drainage grips are to be blocked to encourage a sustainable return to natural flow regimes. | ||
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Revision as of 08:44, 6 September 2013
Project overview
Status | In progress |
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Themes | Economic aspects, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Social benefits, Water quality |
Country | England |
Main contact forename | Jo |
Main contact surname | Spencer |
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Contact organisation | Ribble River Trust |
Contact organisation web site | http://http://www.ribbletrust.org.uk/projects/colne-water/ |
Partner organisations | Colne Water Angling Club, Pendle Borough Council, Durham University, Woodland Trust, Forestry Commission, Environment Agency, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, ‘Friends Of’ groups, Hanson Cement. |
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Project summary
Colne Water Restoration is a partnership project that will use CRF funds to improve watercourses in an area of the Ribble Catchment that is intensely farmed and urbanised. Some river channels have been heavily modified during the Industrial Revolution.
Diffuse pollution, a lack of riparian habitat, unnatural flow regimes attributable to upland drainage and obstructions to fish passage are causing certain watercourses in the Colne Water Catchment to fail to meet the required standards under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Fish populations, particularly salmonids, have been found to be greatly diminished.
To ensure that the failing waterbodies achieve Good Ecological Status under the WFD, the Ribble Rivers Trust aims to improve the habitat and connectivity in order to generate sustainable fish populations. The creation of riparian buffer zones will reduce diffuse pollution from farmland and roads, and some upland drainage grips are to be blocked to encourage a sustainable return to natural flow regimes.
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