How United Utilities are Working with CaBA Partnerships in the North West

1. CaBa Conference, July 2017
Glynn Haworth

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Where we have been ,SCaMP – Catchmentwise-
Safeguard Zones
• Delivery of SCaMP 1 & 2( 2005 -2015)
• Safeguard zones 2015 -2020 Pesticides, Colour, Algae,
Nitrates and Solvents( SCaMP 3)
• Worked with 16 CaBa host in delivering over £500k of
UU investment in Catchmentwise and WFD projects
• Catchmentwise Funded partnerships with
• Love my Beach , Fylde Borough council
• SCaMP4 ? PR19

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SCaMP 4 - slowing the flow of surface water through
Catchment integration and solutions
• SCaMP3 (2015-20) focuses on 31 drinking water ‘Safeguard zones’ (catchments where
the water quality is getting worse) targeting in particular colour, pesticides and algae
in surface water and nitrates and solvents in groundwater. There is a focus on both
owned and non-owned catchment. Cost £3.9 million capex and £11.3 million opex
• SCaMP4 (2020-2025) is in development. Likely to include NFRM surface water ‘slow
the flow’ schemes e.g. Swindale Beck , as well as a continuation of work in newly
designated safeguard zones “watching briefs
• Develop spatial targeting of mitigation actions at a landscape scale using SCIMAP.
Potential to use SCIMAP to work out where the highest surface water risk is coming
from across our catchments and identify the best location for implementing natural
flood risk management solutions
• In AMP 7 we would look to implement a range of Natural Flood Risk ‘slow the flow’
type techniques that would aim to reduce flooding by working with natural features
and characteristics to store or slow down flood waters from the catchment. e.g.
breaching or removal of engineered structures re-meandering of rivers and feeder
streams, e.g. Swindale Beck , creating Opex savings from sediment and mineral
deposition solutions.

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Previous Catchment Wise - CaBa Projects
PROJECT CATCHMENT STATUS
Saving Eden Catchment Science Investigation (CSI) Eden APPROVED
River Derwent Habitat Improvement Project Derwent APPROVED
River Irt Improvement Plan South West Lakes APPROVED
Better Bathing Waters
Predominantly:
Kent Leven
Lune
APPROVED
Esthwaite Catchment Improvement Project
Kent Leven APPROVED
Cocker Condor Clean Up Lune APPROVED
Keeping the Ribble Cool
Ribble
APPROVED
Revised Projects Scope Wyre APPROVED
Revised Projects Scope
Douglas
APPROVED
Reducing Urban Pollution with Street Tees Irwell
APPROVED
Moston Brook Clean and Green Project Irwell APPROVED
Rural Diffuse Water Pollution Surveys
Upper Mersey
APPROVED
Water Pollution Risk Reviews in the Weaver Valley Industrial Estates Weaver/Gowy APPROVED
Micker Brook Pilot Diffuse Urban Pollution Upper Mersey APPROVED
Middle Dee Rural Diffuse Pollution Project Middle Dee
APPROVED
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS £479,956

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Innovation
• Based at the UK's Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire
• Rezatec processes large amounts of diverse Earth Observation data from satellite, airborne and ground instruments
• Cloughbottom , Rossendale
• Clay lane. Rochdale
• extract quantitative risk maps for dominant streams and likely flow paths.
• Estimating water quality risk from mine drainage
• investigate data sources describing mine shaft locations, spoil heaps and other attributes of coal mine
management to estimate water quality risks.
• This will then enable us to priorities and target interventions working with CaBa Host partners

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SCIMAP
Enable spatial targeting of mitigation actions at the landscape scale using SCIMAP
Potential to use SCIMAP to work out where the highest risk is coming from across our catchments
and identify the best location for implementing natural flood risk management solutions
• Surface Flow - surface hydrological connectivity
• Erosion Risk Potential - relative erosion potential as a result of the
amount of water flowing over that point in the landscape and the local
slope gradient which will determine the potential speed
of the water flow.
• Identify Critical Source Areas USING Google Earth and SCIMAP

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Cheshire integrated catchment proposed planCheshire Integrated catchment proposed plan

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Land Management partnerships
Moorlife 2020
The €16 million project will receive €12 million funding from the EU
LIFE programme, the largest ever award to a UK nature conservation
project. It is co-financed by Severn Trent Water, Yorkshire Water and
United Utilities.
Pennine Peat Partnerships
Haweswater
United Utilities and the RSPB have entered into a 45 year
land management partnership on the Haweswater estate.
The management agreement covers approximately 30% of
the estate area and comprises of 2 farms, valley bottom land
and high fell Common land.
Wild Ennerdale
Partnership between United Utilities, Forestry Commission,
National Trust and Natural England

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Swindale Beck Restoration
Partnership project – RSPB, EA, UU, NE (The work took 6 months to complete and cost £205,000)
An exciting collaborative project has now put the bends back into Swindale Beck, and removed its raised banks.This
allows the water to flood onto the meadows more easily which will slow the progress of water flowing down the
valley and help reduce flooding downstream.
• lacking in suitable salmon spawning habitat and poorly connected
to floodplain
• Very few trees along channel length
• Very uniform profile, depth & flow

10. Challenging
Evidence
Gathering
Catchment
Intervention
Asset
Solutions
Collaborative
Working
Innovation
Cost
Effective
Integrated
Catchment
Strategy

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UU integrated catchment strategy

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• 17 catchments where we have an opportunity to
develop an integrated catchment approach
• This means:
 Joined-up activities for water and wastewater
drivers, flooding and quality risks
 Focus is dictated by the drivers
 Holistic, sustainable interventions
 Multiple benefits: water quality
improvements, flood risk management,
social benefits
 Working in partnership
 Engaging with our customers at local level
 Evidence gathering
 Cost effectiveness
 Resilience
Embedding an integrated approach in our region

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The objective of Ellen-wise Phase II is to unpick the
effectiveness of individual farming interventions and
changes to farming practice through a detailed
monitoring programme of nutrient levels within the
catchment.
Catchment solutions such as:
- Riparian buffer strips
- Improved slurry storage
- Fencing
- Farming behaviour
• Off-setting capital costs and
environmental impact of traditional end-
of-pipe solutions
• Quantifying the benefits of catchment
interventions
•The monitoring and critical analysis work
will be delivered through a PhD Research
project by Lancaster University, with the
interventions and project management
delivered by West Cumbria Rivers Trust.
Integrated Catchment Solutions

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The Petteril Catchment
A truly integrated approach:
• Evidence gathering – Investigations and monitoring.
Identifying pollution hotspots in the catchment.
Benchmarking.
• Collaborative approach – partnership work and
stakeholder/customer/community engagement
• Innovative – sustainable, cost beneficial, combining asset
solutions and catchment interventions to:
- reduce phosphorus pollution across the catchment
- mitigate flood risks
- reduce carbon footprint
- Customer/local community engagement

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Eden Rivers Trust
Calthwaite beck walk up survey
Identifying Areas of high sediment input
Fencing
Field road drain outfalls
Habitat and fish passage barriers
Septic tank leaking into the river.

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UU in the Irwell
Currently investigating innovation and
partnership opportunities in the Irwell
catchment, starting upstream in
Rossendale and surrounding areas in the
Upper Irwell.
These will be identified utilising internal /
external data and local knowledge,
including assessment of the following:
- UU performance data (GIS) for Water
and Wastewater
- Optimisation of reservoirs (several
identified in Upper Irwell / Roch)
- AMP6/7 Water & Ww NEP drivers
- Integrated Catchment & Drainage
Strategies
- Surface water management & removal opportunities
- Natural Flood Management opportunities identified by the
EA, JBA, LEC & The Rivers Trust
- Proposed CaBa physical modification projects (53 in
Irwell)
- Communities at risk of flooding (EA)
- Countryside Stewardship and Facilitation Funding
- Tree planting opportunities

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Offline storage areas on catchment or non owned
catchment?
Trial larger horseshoe shaped bunds on peat catchment to retain surface waters and rewet blanket bog
and Increase Sphagnum cover (If 10% Sphagnum cover was present in riparian buffer strips the flood peak is reduced by 7.4% also the
flood peak is reduced by one time step ie 6 minutes, compared with normal conditions.)
• Temporarily store floodwater on floodplain or identified
Catchment storage areas,
•In-stream leaky dams promote slower flood spilling
•Benefits: sediment capture, works alongside modified farming system
Upland blanket bog hydrology target improvements,
e.g. maintain or improve SSSI condition

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NFM Opportunities - Cadshaw Brook

19. PR19 Planning and future opportunities
for collaboration

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More for less
Customer
engagement
Plan has been driven by (not
compared, or validated by)
evidence of what customers do,
not just what customer say
Costs have been market
tested to ensure accurate
pricing and cost of
investment
Improvements in service
and resilience without
increasing bills
Proposals are backed up by a strong track record of delivery,
responsible management, learning from mistakes
Reflecting that “customers”
are our customers and that
regulators are stakeholders
Legitimacy Market testing
Trust
Hot Buttons
Ofwat has expressed a number of themes for PR19, that it expects companies to be
reflecting in their PR19 business plans:

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Water Resources
We engage actively with the abstraction reform process
We will optimise available abstraction to improve resilience of water supplies at both a
local and national level, the latter through trading opportunities
We will use partnership approaches to optimise investment on catchment land to
maximise availability and quality of raw water. This approach is supported by DWI and
EA.
We will seek opportunities to deliver multiple benefits, including flood mitigation,
where our customers support this.
We will take opportunities to improve amenity value and social health benefits aligned
to the “Natural Health Authority”
We will continue to take a risk based approach to remove any societal risk and to
reduce intolerable risks
We are working with EA, Defra and Ofwat to consider flood mitigation options where
they do not compromise the long term provision of reliable raw water sources
Reservoirs Catchment
AbstractionEnvironment
We aim to achieve environmental benefits in balance with efficient, customer-
supported spending
We will identify approaches to measure the benefit our recreation and amenity service
provides
PR19 strategy: key messages

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Manchester resilienceDemand management
• Continuing to increase metered coverage, developing both
smart and connected homes.
• Optimisation of abstraction to ensure resilience
(environmental and supply)
• Reducing flood risk through NFM and
• Delivering the requirement of the WFD
Integrated drainage area strategies -PR19 Development
Pollution Incidents
‘Manchester North
Integrated
Catchment
P removal
Integrated Catchment Approach Water resources
Partnerships
Flooding
ScAMPCatchment
Wise
• Embracing phosphorus
stewardship
• Strategy for biological
removal
• Targeted investment
• Dynamic permitting
• Cost Benefit
• Natural Capital
• Catchment resilience
• Reducing Flood risk and
providing environmental
improvement
• Rezatek. catchment & water quality risk
mapping
• Immersive research
• Coal authority partnerships
• SuDs for Schools
• Exploration of the opportunity in balance with
regional resilience
• Customer & stakeholder engagement within
the Irwell Catchment
• Surface water Safeguard Zones
• Active engagement in abstraction reform
• Smart Catchments
• Natural flood management
• Reservoir headroom for flood management
• Permit compliance to perfection
• Reduction in discharges to the environment
• Greater focus on quantity metrics
• Collaborative working for delivery of multiple benefits, using the
strength of partnerships within and beyond our region.
• partnership approaches to optimise investment on catchment land
• Community investment
• Irwell catchment partnership
• City of Trees
• CaBa
• Natural Course
Innovation & Research
Integrated drainage area strategies
( IDAS)
• Future supply & demand
• Flooding
• RAG management plans
• Misconnections
• CSO monitoring
• Removing surface water in partnerships, to provide
sustainable drainage schemes (SuDs)
• Improve customer contact
• Reinvest from regulatory into
Catchment schemes

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8. Summary of key messages
 We are investigating opportunities to integrate drivers/solutions on a catchment scale,
both internally and externally. Success will vary by driver and catchment
 If there is no driver for UU and no benefit in the service we provide to our customers, it
is unlikely that UU can invest
 However, we will continue to work collaboratively with catchment groups to deliver
WFD and investigate opportunities
 And although we are not quite there, our ambition is to build a future where UU
becomes a catchment system operator, and we are setting up a stepped integrated
approach to helps us fulfil that vision
 To realise the opportunities in AMP7, the next 12 months is critical as we lead up to
PR19. A governance process is in place to offer support and guidance.
 There are many barriers that could stop or reduce the scale of opportunity realised. We
cant overcome these alone.
Summary of Key messages

24. Collaborative working at a catchment scale
to integrate catchment management, and resilience.
Facilitation Fund
For project queries please contact:
amina.aboobakar@uuplc.co.uk
glynn.haworth@uuplc.co.uk
Thank You