CaBA Learning Workshops - Mapping, Modelling and Data Management

Mapping and modelling for
catchment planning
CaBA Learning Workshops, London, Lancashire and Gloucestershire.
February / March 2014

Mapping and modelling for catchment planning
Introduction Michelle Walker
Data to Information – the recipe for catchment
planning
Nick Paling
CaBA Support Package – what help is available Michelle Walker
GIS Data Package and Modelling Overview Dave Johnson
Workshop: Using Maps and Data to plan next
steps for catchment partnerships
Groups
Discussion and question time All

Data & evidence in catchment planning
Consideration of data & evidence is vital throughout stakeholder-led
catchment planning - it enables and facilitates the entire process
Shared
understanding
Common
language
Explore complex
issues
Target
measures
Predict
benefits
Identify
pressures

STAKEHOLDER-LED CATCHMENT PLAN
A shared plan developed though collaboration
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GIS / DATA
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Mapping & visualisation
CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP
REGIONAL&NATIONALORGANISATIONS
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CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP
STAKEHOLDER-LED CATCHMENT PLAN
A shared plan developed though collaboration
www
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REGIONAL&NATIONALORGANISATIONS
GIS / DATA
TRAINING
INTERP.
TRAINING
Mapping & visualisation
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CaBA Support Package – What help is available?
• GIS Training:
– Nick Paling, Westcountry RT
– ArcGIS Desktop v10
– University of Reading
– 31st March – 4th April
– Two days introductory
– Two days intermediate/advanced
– Final workshop / surgery data
– Find out more on the CaBA Forum

• Ecosystem Services Mapping Framework
– Nick Paling, WRT
– Guidance and data sources on how to undertake ES
Mapping in your catchment
– April 2014

• GIS Data Package
– Dave Johnson (RT contractor)
– Survey
– Walkover survey index
– ArcGIS Desktop v10 & PDF maps
– End March
– Complete license to receive data
package
– Joined up with GIS Training Package

• Web Mapping Portal
– Michelle Walker (The Rivers Trust), Sarah
Wigley (Westcountry Rivers Trust), Esther
Collis (FWAG)
– http://maps.theriverstrust.org
– Functionality improvements
– Additional data
– Interactive layer
– Local information

• User Centred Design of Online Tools
– Trevor Page (Lancaster University)
– Lots of tools in development: CCMhub.net,
CaBA Website, CaBA forum, Catchment
Mapping Portal, Catchment Data Explorer,
UKWIR Database
– What do YOU need?
– Funding available to attend workshops and
get your voice heard

• Catchment Data User Group Membership:
– Environment Agency, Natural England, Forest
Research, Internal Drainage Boards, Wildlife
Trusts, Rivers Trusts, Academia, Water
Companies, Canal & Rivers Trust, National Trust,
River Restoration Centre, Freshwater Habitats
Trust, Freshwater Biological Association,
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group, Joint Nature
Conservation Committee
– Seeking new members from CaBA partnerships

• Catchment Data User Group Purpose:
– Review and prioritise options for data and information sharing
developments to be funded under the Catchment Partnership
Fund National Allocation
– To coordinate, develop and promote the contribution of
external data in to the river basin planning process
– To help identify end user requirements for river basin planning
products and outputs
– To advise and support clear external communications regarding
proposed changes to the river basin planning process (for
example WFD classifications, tools and ‘building blocks’,
economic appraisal, etc).
– To identify opportunities for dissemination of best practice,
joining up with parallel data and information-sharing initiatives
and developing wider links to facilitate this.

• CaBA Website
– Nick Paling, WRT
– Sharing best practice, techniques, guidance
– Maps, photos, documents, videos
– CCM Hub/ Forum / UKWIR – single source of info, multiple uses
– End Feb content management system with example content
– Information trawl ongoing - YOUR input is needed
– Network of contributors / editors
– Line up with CCM Hub / UKWIR db
– User requirements

• CaBA Helpdesk and Forum
– Open to all
– Sign up to the forum and start posting!
www.catchmentbasedapproach.net
info@catchmentbasedapproach.org
0300 302 0511
#CaBA

• Catchment Activity Data Standard:
– Mike Haft, Freshwater Biological Association
– Harmonise the way information is collected, stored and reported
– Feeding in to RBMP process
– Single database multiple ‘front ends’ – River Wiki, UKWIR
Database, Mapping Portal, EA Catchment Planning System, etc….
– Need standard fields, attributes, units to facilitate better data
sharing
– Need templates to speed up reporting / info gathering

CaBA Support Item Main Contacts Detail How can you get involved? Due date
Subsidised ArcGIS
Training
Nick Paling
nick@wrt.org.uk
Training courses in Reading (31st March –
4th April) £50/day
Online modules
Sign up for training End March
Desktop GIS Package Dave Johnson & Sarah Wigley
david@theriverstrust.org
sarah@theriverstrust.org
Disk or download
ArcGIS MXD, Datasets, Data Inventory and
Guidance notes
Return license when issued to
receive data package
End March
Web Mapping Portal Michelle Walker & Sarah Wigley
michelle@theriverstrust.org
Online mapping tool for sharing
catchment management information
Register, use and provide
feedback
Ongoing
User Centred Design
of future online tools
Trevor Page (Lancaster Uni)
t.page@lancaster.ac.uk
Regional workshops to identify user needs
for information sharing and mapping tools
Sign up now (funding and
expenses available to attend)
Early – Mid
March
Catchment Data User
Group
Michelle Walker & Tom Guilbert
(EA) – co-chairs
tom.guilbert@environment-
agency.gov.uk
Forum for identifying and tackling
information and data sharing issues for
catchment management stakeholders
Contact co-chairs to request
membership
Ongoing
Catchment Activity
Data Standard
Mike Haft (FBA) & Michelle Walker
MHaft@fba.org.uk
Task group to agree standard template for
reporting catchment management activity
Contact if you are interested in
contributing
Early March
CaBA Website Nick Paling & Michelle Walker
nick@wrt.org.uk
Online resources to guide you through the
CaBA process and share best practice
between CaBA partners
Provide case studies, contact
details, logos, photos, videos,
summaries
End Feb and
ongoing
CaBA Helpdesk and
Forum
Ali Morse (WT) & Rob Collins (RT)
Info@catchmentbasedapproach.net
Tel: 0300 302 0511
subscribe to the CaBA mailing list.
Email address
Message board
Phone number
Mailing list
Sign up for the forum and
mailing list.
Forward to your colleagues
Contact the helpdesk with
queries
Ongoing
UK Water Industry
Research Database
Michelle Walker, Dave Corbelli
(Cascade)
Database of catchment management
initiatives and best practice
Provide case studies and
supporting material (to link up
with CaBA Website / CCM Hub)
March -
September
Online version of this handout: http://tinyurl.com/cabadata01

Overview of data resources
There is a lot of data
out there for urban
(less) and rural (more).
The aim is to make it as
accessible as possible.
In the basic package
you will be getting...
X

Basic Data. Organised according to four questions
1) Where are the opportunities
for action?
2) Where are the
known issues?
3) What are the key
catchment
characteristics?
4) What are the
possible causes of
problems?Base mapping
(context)

Where are the opportunities for actions?
Focus effort where we can do things?
1)Freshwater and 2)Water Regulation (e.g. SuDS)
3)Habitats & wildlife, 4)Recreation & Culture
5)Climate Regulation
X
Drinking
water
SSSI, &
Habitat
opportunity

Where are the known problems? Start with WFD
2013 and then move on to any local assessments.
For 1)Surface Water and 2)Groundwater
3)Lakes, 4) Transitional & 5)Coastal waters
Ecological status
Chemical status
Monitoring sites

What are the key catchment characteristics? To
help understand the problems and more importantly what we
can do about them.
Rainfall, Landuse and Habitats, Surface & Groundwater.
Lakes, Transitional and Coastal
Priority
Habitats
Land
Drainage

What are the possible causes? If there is only one
possible cause it is easy; multiple causes are more troublesome!
1) Point sources & 2) Diffuse
Barriers & other + EA reasons for failure

Additional Data Resources:
Refine the basic data pack with according to your specific issues
• More detailed versions of
basic data
• Additional data layers
– Geostore, NE, RT data
store
– OS, BGS, CEH & NSRI
– Local data, e.g. Walkovers
• Urban data is often in this
section I am afraid.

Additional Data Resources:
Refine the basic data pack according to your specific issues
X

How confident can we be of the data?
Measurement error, sample error and model error
Optimism with a touch of cynicism

Collecting our own data?
Data storage, standards & provenance
1) Predict
2) Monitor
3) Understand
4) Monitor

Some final thoughts on data?
1) Bring out your walkover data!
2) We are getting a central license sorted out but you will
need to send it back, 50 layers in the basic package.
3) We have surveyed you and got a lot of good feedback
but please come and see me, especially urban.
4) This is not the end .......

Overview of modelling tools:
The basics
• All models are wrong, but then so is
the monitoring!
• They are useful for ‘What ifs?’.
• Models are an important component
of a weight of evidence approach.
• You are getting model output in the
basic data package.

Rural modelling: A wealth of outputs available.
• SA GIS (In river concentration)
• PSYCHIC, NeapN, and
Farmscoper
• SCIMAP (Relative risk)
• ECM+ (Export coefficient)
• FS2.
• SWAT, CatchIS, iMap Water and
many more!
Output from the optimisation of
measures in Farmscoper

Urban modelling: There is a lot of outputs available.
• SA GIS.
• Integrated Urban Drainage
Modelling.
• Agency urban nitrate layer
• ConSim and LandSim.
• And many more for specific
situations.
Integrated Urban
drainage modelling

Some final thoughts.
• Models give better relative than absolute
predictions.
• Designed to answer a problem. Work with the
modellers to answer your problem.
• Scale is critical.
• Using multiple model outputs is good practice.
• You will get quite a few model outputs in the
basic data package.
SuDS map from BGS

Some final thoughts: If everyone agrees about the cause
of the problem and the best measures to solve it we don’t need models.
Where there is a lack of consensus models can help.

Interactive Session
The River Perch catchment
• 271 square kilometres in the English midlands,
• drains a varied landscape and range of habitats.
• rises in the moorland and mires of the Hassett
Hills
• flows south through a rolling agricultural
landscape before entering the town of
Felpersham.
• Tributary Am – flows through intensive
agricultural landscape
• Joins sea at Severn Estuary

Interactive Session
The River Perch catchment
• 4 of the 7 waterbodies failing WFD
• CaBA partnership - The River Perch Catchment
Initiative –jointly led by the Friends of the River
Perch and the Borsetshire Wildlife Trust.
• You have been invited to a River Perch
Catchment Initiative stakeholder workshop
planning meeting to decide on the next steps for
your partnership.

Interactive Session
Your mission (should you choose to accept it!):
Use the maps and information you have access to in order to prioritise and
select three next steps for your partnership to take
You have 20 minutes to review the information and decide on your next steps.
Please nominate a reporter to feed back at the end on how your group made the decisions and what you
think you do and don’t know about your catchment.
You may like to consider these questions when reviewing the information that you have been provided
with:
– What are the key characteristics of my catchment?
– Where are the well-known problems in my catchment?
– What are the possible causes of problems?
– Where are the priority areas?

Interactive Session
1. Obtain outputs from sediment runoff risk model
2. Hold a meeting at a water treatment works between farmers and the
water company
3. Undertake pollution walkover survey
4. Hold a ' causes workshop' to investigate with stakeholders what the
possible causes of problems are
5. Seek funding to identify urban misconnections and undertake a public
education campaign
6. Review monitoring data to identify information gaps and decide what
additional data would be useful
7. Identify delivery organisations already active in the catchment

Interactive Session
8. Obtain outputs from a nutrient source apportionment model
9. Find out more about reasons for failure
10. Hold a 'measures' workshop to identify which measures to select
11. Apply for a grant to deliver a programme of agricultural advice and
investment
12. Meet with your main stakeholders in a brainstorming or workshop
situation to build consensus about the main issues and concerns in the catchment.
13. Undertake a Yellow fish labelling campaign on road drains

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