Case study:Hills to Levels

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Location: 51° 5' 57.11" N, 2° 57' 52.06" W

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Status	In progress
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Themes	Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Land use management - agriculture, Land use management - forestry, Monitoring, Water quality
Country	England
Main contact forename	Joanna
Main contact surname	Uglow
Main contact user ID	User:FWAGSW-H2L
Contact organisation	Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group SouthWest
Contact organisation web site	http://www.fwagsw.org.uk/
Partner organisations	FWAG SW, Somerset Rivers Authority, Environment Agency, RSPB, Somerset Wildlife Trust
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Hills to Levels is an holistic catchment management approach across catchments in Somerset, aiming to ‘slow the flow’ to reduce flood risk, reduce erosion, improve water quality, deliver wider environmental benefits and increase resilience on the floodplain. The idea is that a lot of small-scale interventions will have an effect at the large catchment scale with the motto that ‘every field, every farm, every stream has its part to play in flooding and water quality’. The Hills to Levels approach started as a partnership between the RSPB, Royal Bath & West Society, Somerset Wildlife Trust and FWAG SW after the 2013/14 flooding of the Somerset Levels. The project aimed to reduce flood risk, increase farm resilience and to join up the communities in the upper and lower catchments in Somerset.

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Catchment and subcatchment Select a catchment/subcatchment Site Edit site Name WFD water body codes WFD (national) typology WFD water body name Pre-project morphology Reference morphology Desired post project morphology Heavily modified water body National/international site designation Local/regional site designations Protected species present Invasive species present Species of interest Dominant hydrology Dominant substrate River corridor land use Average bankfull channel width category Average bankfull channel width (m) Average bankfull channel depth category Average bankfull channel depth (m) Mean discharge category Mean annual discharge (m3/s) Average channel gradient category Average channel gradient Average unit stream power (W/m2) Project background Edit project background Reach length directly affected (m) Project started 2015/01/01 Works started Works completed Project completed Total cost category Total cost (k€) Benefit to cost ratio Funding sources Local Growth Fund, Peoples Postcode Lottery, Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, Somerset Rivers Authority, Water Environment Improvement Fund, WFD GiA, Interegg Two Seas, Princes Countryside Fund Cost for project phases Phase cost category cost exact (k€) Lead organisation Contact forename Contact surname Investigation and design Stakeholder engagement and communication Works and works supervision Post-project management and maintenance Monitoring Reasons for river restoration Edit reasons for restoration Mitigation of a pressure Flooding and Water Quality Hydromorphology Biology Physico-chemical Other reasons for the project Measures Edit Measures Structural measures Bank/bed modifications Bank stabilisation, habitat creation Floodplain / River corridor Floodplain reconnection, floodplain scrapes, floodplain woodland planting Planform / Channel pattern Opening long sections of culverts, leaky woody dams Other Run-off interception, diversion, attenuation Non-structural measures Management interventions Soil managment and land use to improve infiltration and water quality Social measures (incl. engagement) Working with Parish Councils and Flood Action Groups Other Monitoring Hydromorphological quality elements Edit Hydromorphological quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Biological quality elements Edit biological quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Physico-chemical quality elements Edit Physico-chemical quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Any other monitoring, e.g. social, economic Edit Other responses Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Monitoring documents Upload monitoring documents Additional documents and videos Upload additional documents Additional links and references Edit links and references Link Description http://https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQzUFXhjlwqsahY4JGQgkWw Suite of videos demonstrating practices adopted across the project area http://http://www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/ Somerset Rivers Authority formed from the Somerset 20 year Flood Action Plan. Hills to Levels is delivering the Land Management workstream Supplementary Information Edit Supplementary Information