TY - BOOK
T1 - Eddleston Water Project Report 2021
AU - Spray, Chris
AU - Black, Andrew
AU - Bromley, Chris
AU - Caithness, Fiona
AU - Dodd, Jennifer
AU - MacDonald, Alan
AU - Martinez Romero, Roberto
AU - McDermott, Tommy
AU - Moir, Hamish
AU - Quinn, Lorraine
AU - Reid, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
The Eddleston Water study is funded by the Scottish Government both directly and through relevant funding streams, such as the Scottish Rural Development Programme. For the period 2016–2020, it was the recipient of funding through participation in the EU North Sea Region Interreg programme Building with Nature. In addition, very significant contributions have come from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and from key partners, including the University of Dundee and the British Geological Survey, not least in terms of in-house monitoring, research, analyses and advice. Other organisations, including the Scottish Borders Council, Scottish Natural Heritage (now NatureScot), Forestry and Land Scotland, Forest Research, CEMEX, Scottish Power, Forest Carbon and Woodland Trust are also important funders and supporters, as indeed are the land owners and land managers themselves.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Eddleston Water study, now in its 12th year, looks to assess the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) to reduce flood risk and improve riparian habitats at a catchment scale. By taking an integrated approach to flood risk and habitat improvement, and through the use of a wide range of NFM measures in locations across the whole catchment, the Eddleston Water project has been able to recreate ‘lost’ hydrological and ecological processes at both the river reach and landscape level. The introduction of these measures has re-connected the river to its catchment both in the headwaters, through large scale riparian tree planting and the introduction of engineered log structures, and on the floodplain where the creation of flood storage ponds, re-meandering of once-straightened channels, the removal of adjacent flood embankments and other measures all help temporarily store water and slow the flow. In addition, NFM can be seen to deliver a range of other benefits and ecosystem services and to act as an important climate change adaptation measure.
AB - The Eddleston Water study, now in its 12th year, looks to assess the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) to reduce flood risk and improve riparian habitats at a catchment scale. By taking an integrated approach to flood risk and habitat improvement, and through the use of a wide range of NFM measures in locations across the whole catchment, the Eddleston Water project has been able to recreate ‘lost’ hydrological and ecological processes at both the river reach and landscape level. The introduction of these measures has re-connected the river to its catchment both in the headwaters, through large scale riparian tree planting and the introduction of engineered log structures, and on the floodplain where the creation of flood storage ponds, re-meandering of once-straightened channels, the removal of adjacent flood embankments and other measures all help temporarily store water and slow the flow. In addition, NFM can be seen to deliver a range of other benefits and ecosystem services and to act as an important climate change adaptation measure.
UR - https://tweedforum.org/eddleston-project-database/
M3 - Commissioned report
BT - Eddleston Water Project Report 2021
PB - Tweed Forum
CY - United Kingdom
ER -
