Case study:The Axe and Exe River Improvement Project (AERIP)

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Location: 50° 42' 54.37" N, 3° 3' 27.48" W

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Project overview

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Status	In progress
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Themes	Economic aspects, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Social benefits, Water quality
Country	England
Main contact forename	John
Main contact surname	Hickey
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Contact organisation	Westcountry Rivers Trust
Contact organisation web site	http://www.wrt.org.uk/
Partner organisations	River Exe and Tributaries Association, Axe Vale Rivers Association, Environment Agency, South West Water, Exe Mitigation Group, River Exe Foundation, Exmoor National Park, Forestry Commission, Natural England, East Devon AONB, Dorset AONB, South West Rivers Association
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The Axe and Exe River Improvement Project (AERIP) is a partnership project using Catchment Restora-tion Funds to undertake river catchment restoration on the Axe and Exe. The partnership, led by the Westcountry Rivers Trust, has been carrying out river restoration and undertaking works to address the causes of Water Framework Directive issues for many years. Through restoration work the project will address issues including: barriers to fish migration, preventing fish from reaching their natural spawning grounds; diffuse pollution, the run-off of soil and nutrients which cause damage to spawning grounds and a negative impact on the wider river ecology;interrupted conveyance of river gravels reducing the spawning habitat for trout and salmon; degraded river corridor habitat, including the impacts from abandoned tree coppice and excessively eroded and poached riverbanks damaged by stock access.

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Name	Axe and Exe Catchments
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Heavily modified water body	No
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Protected species present	No
Invasive species present	No
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Total cost category	500 - 1000 k€
Total cost (k€)	800800 k€ <br />800,000 € <br />
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Funding sources	Catchment Restoration Funds

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Mitigation of a pressure	Barriers to fish migration, Pollution incident
Hydromorphology	Continuity for organisms, Structure & condition of riparian zones
Biology	Fish
Physico-chemical	Nutrient concentrations
Other reasons for the project	Economic, Social, Climate change mitigation

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Bank/bed modifications	Marginal planting, Gravel augmentation
Floodplain / River corridor	Track creation for sediment traps
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