Case study:Limestone Ribble Restoration Project

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Location: 53° 44' 46.59" N, 2° 48' 49.94" W
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Project overview

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Status In progress
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Themes Economic aspects, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Social benefits, Water quality
Country England
Main contact forename John
Main contact surname Milne
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Contact organisation Ribble Rivers Trust
Contact organisation web site http://www.ribbletrust.org.uk
Partner organisations Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Settle Anglers Association, Wild Trout Trust, Woodland Trust, Durham University, Halton West Estate
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Limestone Ribble Restoration is a partnership project that will use CRF funds to improve watercourses in an area of the Ribble Catchment that has been quarried, farmed and industrialised for hundreds of years. The degraded habitat, diffuse pollution and obstructions to fish passage are causing certain watercourses in this area to fail to meet the required standards under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Through restoration work, the project will address issues including: unnatural flow regimes caused by upland grips; sediment which has a direct adverse effect on water quality; barriers to fish migration, preventing fish from reaching habitat that modelling shows they should be present in; interrupted natural downstream movement of substrate which reduces spawning habitat for salmonids; fertiliser run off into rivers which can cause nutrient enrichment and impact negatively on river ecology; expected rise in river water temperature associated with climate change; failed bathing water standard in coastal reaches due to presence of excess pathogens attributable to upstream sources.

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Catchment and subcatchment

Catchment

River basin district Ribble
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Subcatchment

River name River Ribble
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Padiham Traditional Boundaries (Pendle Hill), Ribble Tributrees


Site

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WFD water body codes GB112071065480
WFD (national) typology
WFD water body name River Ribble
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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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Project background

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Project started 2012/07/01
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Project completed 2015/03/01
Total cost category 100 - 500 k€
Total cost (k€) 100100 k€ <br />100,000 € <br />
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Funding sources Catchment Restoration Funds

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Investigation and design Less than 1 k€
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Reasons for river restoration

Mitigation of a pressure Diffuse polution
Hydromorphology Quantity & dynamics of flow, Structure & condition of riparian/lake shore zones
Biology Fish
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Bank/bed modifications Tree planting
Floodplain / River corridor Barrier removal, The blocking of certain grips
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