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|Partner organisations=Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Cumbria Woodlands, Lune Rivers Trust, Morecambe Bay Partnership, Arnside & Silverdale AONB Partnership, South Cumbria Rivers Trust, RSPB, | |Partner organisations=Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Cumbria Woodlands, Lune Rivers Trust, Morecambe Bay Partnership, Arnside & Silverdale AONB Partnership, South Cumbria Rivers Trust, RSPB, | ||
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|Project summary=Morecambe Bay and its river catchments should be considered as one interacting entity. Therefore, the Source to Sea Programme is a pan-Morecambe Bay Catchment Restoration Fund initiative that encompasses restoration projects for a range of waterbodies, protected sites, and associated priority habitats and species. | |Project summary=Morecambe Bay and its river catchments should be considered as one interacting entity. Therefore, the Source to Sea Programme is a pan-Morecambe Bay Catchment Restoration Fund initiative that encompasses restoration projects for a range of waterbodies, protected sites, and associated priority habitats and species. | ||
Community Involvement - Engagement activities will include public consultations, practical volunteering activities like beach cleans, and tree planting, and awareness-raising through media and face-to-face contact. | The project will restore the natural connections along watercourses (removing barriers) and between water-courses and their floodplains and headwaters (restoring habitats). The project works in partnership with landowners and managers to bring about land management change to benefit water quality and raises awareness amongst Morecambe Bay coastal communities. 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 project area 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 project aims to improve the habitat and connectivity in order to generate sustainable fish populations. The creation of wetland habitats and 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. | ||
|Monitoring surveys and results=Community Involvement - Engagement activities will include public consultations, practical volunteering activities like beach cleans, and tree planting, and awareness-raising through media and face-to-face contact. | |||
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Revision as of 13:25, 26 February 2024
Project overview
Project summary
Morecambe Bay and its river catchments should be considered as one interacting entity. Therefore, the Source to Sea Programme is a pan-Morecambe Bay Catchment Restoration Fund initiative that encompasses restoration projects for a range of waterbodies, protected sites, and associated priority habitats and species.
The project will restore the natural connections along watercourses (removing barriers) and between water-courses and their floodplains and headwaters (restoring habitats). The project works in partnership with landowners and managers to bring about land management change to benefit water quality and raises awareness amongst Morecambe Bay coastal communities. 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 project area 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 project aims to improve the habitat and connectivity in order to generate sustainable fish populations. The creation of wetland habitats and 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.
Monitoring surveys and results
Community Involvement - Engagement activities will include public consultations, practical volunteering activities like beach cleans, and tree planting, and awareness-raising through media and face-to-face contact.
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