The CaBA Catchment Data & Evidence Forum brought together around 60 data and evidence professionals from the CaBA community to share knowledge, identify opportunities and discuss future development of the data and evidence sharing landscape, in the light of the government's 25 year plan for the environment. This slide pack contains the presentation given by Ribble Rivers Trust on their use of data and evidence to support their local CaBA partnerships

1. Using Data and Evidence to
Facilitate Effective
Catchment Management
Ellie Brown
GIS Data and Evidence Officer
Ribble Rivers Trust

2. RRT use data and evidence to:
• Prioritise: - fish passage works
- creation of riparian woodland
- creation and restoration of hedgerows and boundaries to
benefit rivers
To ensure the greatest cost-benefit for the resources invested
To secure funding
• Engage with landowners, farmers and partners
To get messages across more easily, and encourage better practice
• Enable the public to find out about the Ribble Catchment
To increase interest in rivers, and increase individual action to conserve rivers
• Facilitate sharing of data, evidence and information between partners
To improve collaborative working
To make the most of limited funding opportunities available
To improve project design
To increase knowledge of problems and opportunities

3. RRT use data and evidence to:
• Prioritise: - fish passage works
- creation of riparian woodland
- creation and restoration of hedgerows and boundaries to
benefit rivers
To ensure the greatest cost-benefit for the resources invested
To secure funding
• Engage with landowners, farmers and partners
To get messages across more easily, and encourage better practice
• Enable the public to find out about the Ribble Catchment
To increase interest in rivers, and increase individual action to conserve rivers
• Facilitate sharing of data, evidence and information between partners
To improve collaborative working
To make the most of limited funding opportunities available
To improve project design
To increase knowledge of problems and opportunities

4. Prioritising the removal of barriers to fish
movement, to better connect populations

5. GIS data required:
- EA barriers dataset
- Local knowledge of
additional barrier locations
- River network dataset
- OS MasterMap Inland
Water data

6. Use FiPEx (an ArcMap Add-In) to
automate the process
Can customise the settings to obtain whatever results you need!

7. For each barrier calculate:
- Length of accessible
watercourse upstream (until you
reach the next barrier(s))
- Area of accessible watercourse
upstream (until you reach the
next barrier(s))

8. RRT are producing a
guidance document
describing how to
repeat the analysis
Gives us a
starting point to
look at which
barriers it’s
feasible to
remove

9. Helps us to secure funding!

10. Using GIS-based tools and models to prioritise the
creation of riparian woodlands to benefit rivers

11. Modelling process:
1a. Creation of a GIS-based, SCIMAP-type tool that predicts the relative
risk of…
-Faecal indicator organism input
-Sediment (eroded topsoil) input
-Input of water from overland flows
…into each 5m stretch of river across a large proportion of the Ribble
catchment.
1b. Creation of the Keeping Rivers Cool dataset that predicts the level of
shade (and conversely sun exposure) cast on rivers (25m resolution)
2. Creation of a GIS-based model to identify priority stretches of
watercourse where the creation of riparian woodland is predicted to have
the greatest positive benefit on reducing one or more of the above risk
factors.

12. Topography Land useRainfall distribution
++
Factors that predict how water flows overland, and the source of pollutants
Tool inputs (SCIMAP-type tool)
© Environment Agency copyright and / or database rights 2018. All
rights reserved; Copyright © 2018, Intermap Technologies, Inc. All
rights reserved; © NERC (CEH) 2011. © Met Office.

13. Risk factor Relative risk (0-1, low to high)
Faecal indicator organism input 0.000186
Sediment input 0.000181
Input of surface runoff 0.000188
Tool outputs (SCIMAP-type tool)
A dataset containing 444,442 points - one every 5m along every watercourse
Each point has a relative risk score assigned to it for each of the three risk
factors
- This score is calculated
based on the characteristics
of the catchment for that
particular point
- The score for that point is
relative to the scores
for all other points across
the whole of the
study area
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018; © Environment Agency copyright and / or database rights 2018. All rights reserved.

14. The challenge:
To convert tool outputs into a dataset(s) that predicts priority sites for
riparian woodland creation, in locations that are likely to:
-Have the greatest impact at reducing one or more risk factors
-Have the greatest cost-benefit
The solution:
An ArcGIS-based model that:
-Identifies priority stretches of
at-risk watercourses for each
risk factor, and;
-Ranks them based on the
potential positive impact that
the creation of riparian
woodland could have on river
health

15. Faecal indicator
organism input
Sediment input
(from eroded
topsoil)
Input of water
from surface
runoff
Model outputs (SCIMAP-type tool)
A prioritised list of stretches of watercourse where creating riparian woodlands
is predicted to reduce the risk of:
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018; © Environment Agency copyright and / or
database rights 2018. All rights reserved; Copyright © 2018, Intermap Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

16. Model outputs (SCIMAP-type tool)
Locations where the creation of riparian woodlands could provide multiple
benefits for rivers
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018; © Environment Agency
copyright and / or database rights 2018. All rights reserved; Copyright © 2018, Intermap Technologies,
Inc. All rights reserved.

17. Topography Woodland distributionLocation of open water
++
Factors that determine the level of shade cast over rivers
Tool inputs (Keeping Rivers Cool)
© Environment Agency copyright and / or database rights 2018. All rights reserved;
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018.
Digital Surface Model

18. Keeping Rivers Cool dataset:
https://www.catchmentbasedapproach.org/deliver/k
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and
database right 2018; © Environment Agency copyright and / or
database rights 2018. All rights reserved
Tool outputs (Keeping Rivers Cool dataset)

19. Model outputs (KRC tool)

20. INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTORS
Making use of model results: Aiding collaborative working

21. INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTORS
Making use of model results: Aiding collaborative working

22. Making use of model results: Prioritising
Collaborative Agreement farm visits

23. Making use of model results: Prioritising
Collaborative Agreement farm visits

24. Making use of model results: Creating woodlands under
Countryside Stewardship Schemes

25. Riparian woodland prioritisation tool
• Has proved useful for:
• Gaining funding
• Engaging with landowners, farmers and partners, resulting in
new woodland being planted
• You could repeat this analysis for your catchment
• SCIMAP sediment and FIO results
• KRC data
• RRT have written a guide on how to repeat this analysis

26. Using data and evidence to engage with
farmers

27. Prioritising the restoration of traditional field boundaries
for Natural Flood Management benefits

28. *based on condition and connectivity
*

33. Secured funding from EA to restore
hedgerows and dry stone walls
Increases likelihood funding will be
invested in restoring boundaries
with the greatest cost-benefit

34. http://ribblelifetogether.org/catchment-map/?Area=Ribble
Interactive
catchment
explorer

35. http://ribblelifetogether.org/catchment-map/?Area=Ribble

36. Able to link to a map that filters out data for the sub-catchment of interest only

37. Ribble Life Partnership Data
Sharing Platform
https://ribbletrust.sharepoint.com/Ribble%20Life%20Partnership%20-%20Data%20Sha

38. The Data Sharing Platform
Hosted securely
online.
Can only be accessed
via username and
password.
Access can only be
granted by Ribble
Rivers Trust.
Memorandum of
Understanding must
be signed before
access will be granted.

39. The Platform was designed to be simple and intuitive to use…

40. All resources are uploaded into a single ‘Partners’ Data’ folder on the Platform

41. Simple metadata MUST be uploaded with each resource, to help partners to search for
data, and determine whether it’s fit for the purpose for which they require it
Metadata are shown
alongside each resource
There is the option to upload a detailed
metadata document or Data Use Licence,
and link directly to it

42. If a resource cannot be uploaded to the Platform, but could be made available to partners
upon request, the resource and contact details for the data owner can be added to a list:

43. You can filter resources to help you find what you’re looking for:

44. Find out about open-source data, evidence and information, and link directly to it

45. Update partners on events that may be of use or interest to them

46. Start new discussions with Ribble Life partners, or participate in existing discussions

47. Share news that Ribble Life partners may find useful or interesting

48. Other features

49. Search for resources using keywords. Any resource on the Platform with that keyword
anywhere within it will be listed.

50. Data Sharing Platform
• Free to create if you have an Office 365 account
• Relatively simple to create the site to function exactly as you
want it to
– Happy to show you how!

51. Why use data and evidence?
• Prioritise: - fish passage works
- the creation of riparian woodland
- restoration of hedgerows and boundaries to benefit rivers
To ensure the greatest cost-benefit for the resources invested
To secure funding
• Engage with landowners and farmers
To get messages across more easily, and encourage better practice
• Enable the public to find out about the Ribble Catchment
To increase interest in rivers, and increase individual action to conserve rivers
• Facilitate sharing of data, evidence and information between partners
To improve collaborative working
To make the most of limited funding opportunities available
To improve project design
To increase knowledge of problems and opportunities

52. Challenges encountered
• Incomplete, low quality or outdated datasets
2m DSM (LiDAR)

53. Challenges encountered
• Incomplete, low quality or outdated datasets
• Useful datasets are expensive to purchase

54. Challenges encountered
• Incomplete, low quality or outdated datasets
• Useful datasets are expensive to purchase
• How do we obtain better quality data, and data that is prohibitively
expensive?
• There are loads of useful data out there that we just don’t know about
• Could we produce a directory of useful data sources?
• How could we encourage partners to value and use data more?
• How could we encourage partners to share data and evidence more?
• What’s next for RRT? Creation of a tool that helps us to prioritise the
locations for wetland creation (for the benefit of rivers, wildlife and flood
risk).
• Any thoughts or experience?

55. Thank you for listening!
Any questions?
ellie@ribbletrust.com
01200 444452