How the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust are bringing partners together to manage the Ouse and other local rivers more sustainably.

1. DVRN Themes and Catchment
Management Plans

2. Dales to Vale Rivers Network
Previous meetings identified
• a Vision
• overall Themes
• potential projects
Focus now is to produce Catchment
Management Plans

3. Clean Water for Everyone
Reduced diffuse pollution from agriculture
Reduce urban pollution

4. Water for Wildlife
Good fishing
Eradication of specific non- native species such as signal crayfish and
giant hogweed
Habitat enhancement/connectivity
Species – Otters/Lamprey/eels
Wetlands

5. Water Friendly Farming
Learning from farmers
Advice
Grants
Practical work

6. Enjoying Water
Paddling
Angling
Walking

7. Learning about Water
More engaged communities
Better data – citizen science
Knowledge transfer

8. Urban Water
Business use
Misconnections
Sustainable Urban Drainage
Re-naturalising

9. Water, water, everywhere
Floods and Natural
Flood Management –
locally and in wider
catchment

10. Catchment Management Plans
•Local stakeholders collectively prioritise
action
•Hosted on new DVRN website
•Catchment Plans to feed intoWFD River
Basin Management plans

11. River Wiske Catchment
Management Plan
Current WFD Status
6 waterbodies
• 4 heavily modified
• 4 are moderate status
• 2 are poor status
59 Reasons for Not Achieving Good
• 28 agriculture + land management
• 3 local + central government
• 9 urban + transport
• 19 water industry

12. Issues – identified at May 14 DVRN meeting
Sedimentation
Diffuse phosphate pollution
Lack of habitat diversity in the river corridor
Metaldehyde
Physical modification – very modified but low priority to tackle
this
Fish passage?
Litter – through Northallerton
Flooding in Brompton and Northallerton
Point source pollution - agricultural and sewage
Poor agri-environment uptake
Good arable land and dairy units

13. Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust walkover
surveys – Jan – March 15
• Standard survey methodology
• Used volunteers
• Covered gaps in existing YWT data

14. The
Catchment
and Issues
found
Proposed
work
locations

15. Catchment issues
EA assessment: dissolved oxygen levels, phosphate levels,
phytobenthos, invertebrates and fish
Flooding
Brompton and Northallerton
Limited ability of land upstream to store water
Water pollution
Diffuse water pollution from agricultural run-off
Siltation from sediment washed out of fields, eroding banks
and livestock poaching
Organic pollution from sewage overflows and waste water
treatment
Low biodiversity
Ecologically poor or moderate
Arable land and offers little habitat for wildlife
Invasive non-native species present such as Himalayan Balsam

16. Main Issues
• Sedimentation and water quality
• Metaldehyde
• Channel Modifications
• Habitat
• Flooding