Case study:Trawden Natural Flood Management Scoping Study
Project overview
Status | Planned |
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Project web site | http://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/projects/45_trawden.pdf |
Themes | Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Land use management - forestry, Social benefits, Water quality |
Country | England |
Main contact forename | Alison |
Main contact surname | Whalley |
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Contact organisation | Environment Agency |
Contact organisation web site | http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency |
Partner organisations | Moors for the Future, Ribble Rivers Trust, Edenvale Young Associates, AECOM |
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Project summary
The project will scope out and model NFM interventions that could establish a reduction in flood risk to Trawden, a village at risk of flooding, near Colne in the Ribble catchment in Lancashire (Map 1). The aim is to inform the Trawden Capital Project and identify catchment scale interventions which could add climate change resilience to this scheme. This will be achieved through:
• Hydraulic modelling: updating the current flood model to establish potential for Natural Flood Management (NFM). This will done by: carrying out a review of the hydraulic and hydrological modifications that could be made within the modelling to represent the effects of NFM; establishing the reduction in peak flows that may be afforded by NFM, or failing that the climate change resilience that may be offered.
• NFM aspirational scoping: carrying out a geomorphology baseline assessment and a landscape scale assessment of the evidence-based NFM solutions that are possible within the catchment surrounding Trawden, including the modelling of each intervention.
• NFM prioritisation: identifying opportunities and methods for priority areas for delivery including social, economic and environmental multiple benefits, match funding and current constraints.
The results of the scoping study are due for publication in June 2017. The key findings will be whether it is possible to reduce flood risk to Trawden through NFM alone, in combination with a proposed traditional capital scheme, or to add climate change resilience to a traditional capital scheme. To date a landscape scale and geomorphological assessment of the Trawden catchment has identified over 150 potential NFM interventions.
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