The document summarizes a workshop on urban water management. It discusses why planning for water is important to reduce flooding and disruption and improve resilience. Good planning can reduce flooding, improve water quality and make cities more livable. The workshop covers how policy, legislation, and different plans work together on water management. It also discusses who is involved in water management partnerships and how they can achieve multiple benefits through innovative approaches.
This document discusses integrated urban water management (IUWM) as an approach to address water security challenges in cities. IUWM takes a holistic view of the urban water cycle and involves stakeholders across sectors. The document outlines the principles of IUWM, including considering the entire water cycle as one system and integrating social, institutional, geographic, inter-sectoral and governance aspects. Case studies from Durban, Singapore, and Dakar demonstrate benefits of IUWM such as cost savings, job creation, increased water supply and improved sanitation. The document concludes by describing IUWM modules and programs that can be implemented to plan and finance IUWM projects at the city level.
This document summarizes the key points from an urban water management workshop held in London. It discusses why planning for water is important to reduce flooding and increase resilience. Good planning through integrated approaches like sustainable drainage systems can improve water quality and make cities more livable. The workshop covered how policy, legislation, and plans work together, and which organizations are involved in water management. Partnerships across different sectors were emphasized as ways to achieve multiple benefits through innovative projects.
Integrated Urban Water Management - Tools and Training. By Kalanithy Vairavam...Global Water Partnership
The document discusses the need for integrated urban water management approaches and tools to help cities better manage increasing water challenges. It outlines several integrated urban water management tools being developed, including an IUWM diagnostic tool, water balance model, technology selection tool, institutional mapping tool, and economic and finance tool. The tools will be housed on an integrated online platform and training modules are being developed to help cascade adoption of new approaches. The project aims to help cities shift perspectives to more holistic, decentralized and productive water management.
1) The document discusses the future of urban water management and the growing challenges facing cities globally over the coming decades as urban populations swell.
2) By 2050, over 90% of population growth will occur in urban areas of developing countries, placing immense strain on water resources and infrastructure.
3) Integrated urban water management (IUWM) is presented as a holistic solution that considers the urban water cycle as one interconnected system and maximizes diverse water sources to improve security, sustainability and affordability.
4) Case studies from cities that have implemented aspects of IUWM, such as Bogota, Lodz, Phnom Penh, Ethekwini and Windhoek, demonstrate
The document discusses the future of urban water management and integrated urban water management (IUWM). It notes that while upper income countries have improved public health outcomes and environmental protection, current water systems are not resilient enough to handle future challenges. The urban population is growing rapidly, especially in developing countries, putting pressure on water resources. There is an opportunity to design water systems differently using IUWM principles. Key points include managing water as a single urban cycle, adapting to uncertainty, using diverse water sources, and involving all stakeholders. Case studies from around the world demonstrate successes with IUWM approaches.
Suresh Rohilla - Climate change and sanitation, water resourcesSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
This document discusses integrated urban water management (IUWM) as an approach to address water security challenges in cities. IUWM takes a holistic view of the urban water cycle and involves stakeholders across sectors. The document outlines the principles of IUWM, including considering the entire water cycle as one system and integrating social, institutional, geographic, inter-sectoral and governance aspects. Case studies from Durban, Singapore, and Dakar demonstrate benefits of IUWM such as cost savings, job creation, increased water supply and improved sanitation. The document concludes by describing IUWM modules and programs that can be implemented to plan and finance IUWM projects at the city level.
This document summarizes the key points from an urban water management workshop held in London. It discusses why planning for water is important to reduce flooding and increase resilience. Good planning through integrated approaches like sustainable drainage systems can improve water quality and make cities more livable. The workshop covered how policy, legislation, and plans work together, and which organizations are involved in water management. Partnerships across different sectors were emphasized as ways to achieve multiple benefits through innovative projects.
Integrated Urban Water Management - Tools and Training. By Kalanithy Vairavam...Global Water Partnership
The document discusses the need for integrated urban water management approaches and tools to help cities better manage increasing water challenges. It outlines several integrated urban water management tools being developed, including an IUWM diagnostic tool, water balance model, technology selection tool, institutional mapping tool, and economic and finance tool. The tools will be housed on an integrated online platform and training modules are being developed to help cascade adoption of new approaches. The project aims to help cities shift perspectives to more holistic, decentralized and productive water management.
1) The document discusses the future of urban water management and the growing challenges facing cities globally over the coming decades as urban populations swell.
2) By 2050, over 90% of population growth will occur in urban areas of developing countries, placing immense strain on water resources and infrastructure.
3) Integrated urban water management (IUWM) is presented as a holistic solution that considers the urban water cycle as one interconnected system and maximizes diverse water sources to improve security, sustainability and affordability.
4) Case studies from cities that have implemented aspects of IUWM, such as Bogota, Lodz, Phnom Penh, Ethekwini and Windhoek, demonstrate
The document discusses the future of urban water management and integrated urban water management (IUWM). It notes that while upper income countries have improved public health outcomes and environmental protection, current water systems are not resilient enough to handle future challenges. The urban population is growing rapidly, especially in developing countries, putting pressure on water resources. There is an opportunity to design water systems differently using IUWM principles. Key points include managing water as a single urban cycle, adapting to uncertainty, using diverse water sources, and involving all stakeholders. Case studies from around the world demonstrate successes with IUWM approaches.
Suresh Rohilla - Climate change and sanitation, water resourcesSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
This document discusses the challenges of rapid urbanization for water management. More than half the world's population now lives in urban areas, with most growth occurring in developing country cities that gain an average of 5 million new residents per month. As cities expand, they place increasing demands on water sources, often drawing water from farther distances and depleting groundwater reserves. Cities also generate large volumes of wastewater but sanitation infrastructure is lacking, leading to widespread water pollution. The document argues that cities should be viewed not just as "sinks" but also potential "sponges" if wastewater is safely reused. Closing nutrient and water loops between cities and surrounding agricultural areas could help mitigate environmental impacts while improving resource use.
1) The document discusses the interconnectivity between various sustainable development goals (SDGs) such as economic growth, healthy societies, and environmental protection.
2) It provides several examples of how water management strategies, such as solar irrigation, can help achieve multiple SDGs by improving food security, livelihoods, climate adaptation and mitigation.
3) The document emphasizes that sustainable development requires understanding the complex relationships and trade-offs between different sectors such as water, energy, food, and ecosystems.
Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning is used in urban areas to promote resilience to flood
risk and climate change. In this study, planning is considered as the regulation of physical implementation as well as the process of policy-making that guides spatial development. This process mainly involves the interaction and collaboration between actors (both public and private).
The notion of resilience is being used more and more in discussions of complex issues like the impact of climate-related flood risks on spatial development. The interpretations of resilience can vary significantly depending on the local context,
the focus of spatial development and the interests of the actors involved in decision- making. The study proposes six characteristics of planning decision-making that
can help to promote the resilience of cities. These comprise: (i) considering the current situation, (ii) examining trends and future threats, (iii) learning from previous experience, (iv) setting goals, (v) initiating actions, and (vi) involving the public. The importance of these characteristics over time for policy and practice is examined according to empirical evidence from detailed case study analysis. Six case studies are presented, four in Taiwan and two in the Netherlands. In all of the case studies, the issue of flood risk and spatial development is considered important by policy- makers, but the planning strategies used to tackle climate-related flood risks are often different, as are the experiences of flooding and governance arrangements.
The information gathered is primarily based on interviews and the review of planning policies, government reports and research documents.
Comparative analysis is a central focus of the study. The analysis has both a national and international perspective, comparing cases within Taiwan and between Taiwan and the Netherlands. The national comparison examines the way in which local planning governance is addressed in shaping decisions to deal with flood risks. This can vary among cases which share similar spatial development objectives and national institutional framework. The international comparison between Taiwan and the Netherlands examines the roles of planning to promote urban resilience in the context of flood risk and climate change.
Three conclusions can be drawn. First, the interpretation of resilience is dependent on the views and interests of the actors involved. These change over time and can be seen in different episodes of policy-making. Second, the importance of the different
Water activists remain unheard on World Water Day according to the document. It notes that while governments celebrate World Water Day by organizing events and announcing policies, the voices of water activists are not being incorporated into actual policymaking. The document outlines issues like decreasing groundwater levels, inadequate water treatment infrastructure, and unchecked real estate development negatively impacting water availability and drainage. It calls on governments to pay more attention to region-specific solutions proposed by water experts and activists aimed at community welfare rather than just revenue generation.
Pune’s Trash Solution: A Zero Waste City (by Kunal Kumar, Municipal Commissio...NITI Aayog
This document summarizes Kunal Kumar's presentation on Pune's approach to zero waste management. Some key points:
- Pune generates around 1600 tons of solid waste per day and collects waste door-to-door using 160 trucks.
- Their integrated waste management approach focuses on segregation at source, decentralized processing, and scientific disposal.
- Best practices include integrating the informal sector, biomethanation plants, mandatory on-site disposal for new developments, and an app for citizen complaints.
- The goal is to become a zero garbage city through increasing awareness, promoting recycling and composting, and developing comprehensive centralized processing.
The presentation discusses The Nature Conservancy's experience with water funds. It summarizes that water funds are an innovative model for long-term watershed conservation where cities and other users provide steady funding to protect upstream lands through conservation actions. The Latin America Water Funds Partnership aims to create and strengthen at least 32 water funds in the region by 2015, impacting over 3 million hectares and benefiting over 50 million people. Examples of water funds in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru are provided.
Presented by IWMI's Director General, Claudia Sadoff, at the 3rd Karachi International Water Conference in Mövenpick Hotel, Karachi, Pakistan, on November 22, 2017.
ASLF Presents at The Great Plains LID Research and Innovation Symposium 04.03...aslfadmin
This document discusses the Atlantic States Legal Foundation's vacant lot program in Syracuse, NY. The program aims to transform vacant urban lots into green infrastructure that reduces combined sewer overflows. Some key points:
- ASLF established a vacant lot program to meet legal requirements to reduce CSOs with green infrastructure by 6.3% by 2018.
- The program identifies suitable vacant lots, many owned by the city, and works with the city and county to design and construct green infrastructure projects like rain gardens, urban orchards, and native plantings.
- Several pilot projects have been constructed, reducing runoff by over 100,000 gallons each.
- Challenges include previous land uses,
Green Spaces Making i Cities Happy , Healthy and Sustainable Places to lLiveJIT KUMAR GUPTA
The document discusses the importance of green spaces in cities. It notes that rapid urbanization is leading to congestion and a lack of open spaces in many cities. Green spaces provide health, environmental, social and economic benefits by improving air quality, encouraging physical activity, reducing stress, and increasing social interaction and property values. However, many factors like unplanned development, high land costs, and lack of priority given to open spaces have resulted in a shortage of green spaces in most cities, negatively impacting quality of life. The document argues that public health should be a key consideration in urban planning and that more priority needs to be given to incorporating and maintaining adequate green spaces in cities.
Environment and Health Status in Urban and Rural IndiaGAURAV. H .TANDON
Rural and urban areas in India face significant issues with water access and sanitation. In rural areas, most people lack piped water access and must collect water from sources like open wells or hand pumps, often spending significant time fetching water. Water quality is also an issue, with problems like arsenic contamination affecting millions of people. Sanitation infrastructure is similarly lacking, with most rural Indians practicing open defecation. In urban areas, piped supplies are unreliable and many cities face severe water shortages. Water theft and leakage exacerbate the problems in urban water systems. Overall, access to clean drinking water and sanitation remains inadequate in both rural and urban India.
This document provides information about landscape performance tools and resources. It discusses the Landscape Architecture Foundation's (LAF) mission to support environmental solutions through research and scholarships. It promotes measuring sustainability through frameworks like Living Building Challenge and outlines case studies comparing landscape project benefits. These benefits include water and energy reductions as well as increased social value. The document advertises the Landscape Performance Series online resource for metrics, case studies, fact libraries, and guidance on evaluating landscape project performance. It provides examples of project benefits and outcomes. In summary, the document promotes tools and resources for measuring and demonstrating landscape sustainability performance.
Presented by IWMI's Director General, Claudia Sadoff, at the 1st Lancang-Mekong Water Resources Cooperation Forum in Kunming, Yunnan, China, on November 1, 2018.
This document discusses ecosystem valuation, including what it is, why it is important, and how it can be done. Specifically:
- Ecosystem services include things like stormwater management, flood control, waste treatment, recreation, and more. Valuing these services is important to make informed decisions that consider environmental, social and economic factors.
- Valuing ecosystem services allows communities to recognize the benefits nature provides, such as water purification and carbon sequestration, and compare alternatives in a common financial language. This improves decision making.
- Case studies demonstrate that maintaining natural ecosystems like wetlands is often much more cost effective than engineered alternatives. Guidelines help standardize the valuation process to ensure rigor and transparency.
Green Infrastructure Basic Principles & Tools nado-web
Brownfields are vacant, underutilized, or contaminated properties that threaten human and environmental health, depress local economies, and reduce local tax revenues. Integrating green storm water infrastructure (GSI) into brownfields redevelopment has emerged as a national best practice, pushing the boundaries of sustainability ever outward and dramatically increasing the economic, environmental, and social benefits that brownfields revitalization can generate. This session will review salient principles of green infrastructure and showcase a GSI Templates tool, a GSI Decision Tree tool, and a basic project pro-forma worksheet that work in both small and large cities to help plan GSI at brownfield sites.
Eugene Goldfarb, Technical Assistance Provider, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, Manhattan, KS
Elizabeth Limbrick, Project Manager, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Margaret Renas, Lead, Community and Brownfield Redevelopment, Delta Institute, Chicago, IL
Matt Ward, CEO, Sustainable Strategies DC, Washington, DC
The document discusses green infrastructure as both a planning approach and stormwater management approach. As a planning approach, green infrastructure creates an interconnected network of natural areas that provides ecosystem services and benefits. As a stormwater management approach, it refers to systems that mimic natural processes to infiltrate, evapotranspirate, or reuse stormwater on-site. The document then provides examples of specific green infrastructure technologies and their stormwater management benefits, such as rain gardens capturing 30-80% of rainfall and reducing pollutants. Overall, the green infrastructure approach treats stormwater at its source, unlike traditional approaches that focus on rapid removal.
The document discusses solutions for providing clean drinking water and sanitation in India. It outlines several proposed models, including establishing reverse osmosis plants at the community level with funding from CSR initiatives or PPPs. Desalination plants along coastal areas and household solutions like chlorination or ceramic filters are also proposed. To address open defecation, the document recommends SHG-managed public toilets, ecosan toilets, and extensive awareness programs in schools and through media. Financial support could come from CSR, communities, or the state depending on the solution. Sustainability and persuading industries are obstacles to these solutions.
Coastal Degradation and fresh water pollution in sri lankaIsuru Zoysa
Coastal degradation and pollution are significant problems for Sri Lanka due to its long coastline and reliance on coastal areas for population settlement and tourism. Unplanned development has accelerated erosion and pollution issues. Fresh water pollution is also a concern due to urbanization, industrialization, pesticide usage, and some tourism activities. Improper management of urban and industrial waste further compounds the pollution problems. Recommendations include stronger regulations and enforcement, pollution prevention and mitigation efforts, sustainable tourism development, and additional research.
Marine pollution in sri lanka
A presentation Done by the 1st Year Students (Group 4) of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura for the Environmental Chemistry Assignment..
This document discusses the challenges of rapid urbanization for water management. More than half the world's population now lives in urban areas, with most growth occurring in developing country cities that gain an average of 5 million new residents per month. As cities expand, they place increasing demands on water sources, often drawing water from farther distances and depleting groundwater reserves. Cities also generate large volumes of wastewater but sanitation infrastructure is lacking, leading to widespread water pollution. The document argues that cities should be viewed not just as "sinks" but also potential "sponges" if wastewater is safely reused. Closing nutrient and water loops between cities and surrounding agricultural areas could help mitigate environmental impacts while improving resource use.
1) The document discusses the interconnectivity between various sustainable development goals (SDGs) such as economic growth, healthy societies, and environmental protection.
2) It provides several examples of how water management strategies, such as solar irrigation, can help achieve multiple SDGs by improving food security, livelihoods, climate adaptation and mitigation.
3) The document emphasizes that sustainable development requires understanding the complex relationships and trade-offs between different sectors such as water, energy, food, and ecosystems.
Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning is used in urban areas to promote resilience to flood
risk and climate change. In this study, planning is considered as the regulation of physical implementation as well as the process of policy-making that guides spatial development. This process mainly involves the interaction and collaboration between actors (both public and private).
The notion of resilience is being used more and more in discussions of complex issues like the impact of climate-related flood risks on spatial development. The interpretations of resilience can vary significantly depending on the local context,
the focus of spatial development and the interests of the actors involved in decision- making. The study proposes six characteristics of planning decision-making that
can help to promote the resilience of cities. These comprise: (i) considering the current situation, (ii) examining trends and future threats, (iii) learning from previous experience, (iv) setting goals, (v) initiating actions, and (vi) involving the public. The importance of these characteristics over time for policy and practice is examined according to empirical evidence from detailed case study analysis. Six case studies are presented, four in Taiwan and two in the Netherlands. In all of the case studies, the issue of flood risk and spatial development is considered important by policy- makers, but the planning strategies used to tackle climate-related flood risks are often different, as are the experiences of flooding and governance arrangements.
The information gathered is primarily based on interviews and the review of planning policies, government reports and research documents.
Comparative analysis is a central focus of the study. The analysis has both a national and international perspective, comparing cases within Taiwan and between Taiwan and the Netherlands. The national comparison examines the way in which local planning governance is addressed in shaping decisions to deal with flood risks. This can vary among cases which share similar spatial development objectives and national institutional framework. The international comparison between Taiwan and the Netherlands examines the roles of planning to promote urban resilience in the context of flood risk and climate change.
Three conclusions can be drawn. First, the interpretation of resilience is dependent on the views and interests of the actors involved. These change over time and can be seen in different episodes of policy-making. Second, the importance of the different
Water activists remain unheard on World Water Day according to the document. It notes that while governments celebrate World Water Day by organizing events and announcing policies, the voices of water activists are not being incorporated into actual policymaking. The document outlines issues like decreasing groundwater levels, inadequate water treatment infrastructure, and unchecked real estate development negatively impacting water availability and drainage. It calls on governments to pay more attention to region-specific solutions proposed by water experts and activists aimed at community welfare rather than just revenue generation.
Pune’s Trash Solution: A Zero Waste City (by Kunal Kumar, Municipal Commissio...NITI Aayog
This document summarizes Kunal Kumar's presentation on Pune's approach to zero waste management. Some key points:
- Pune generates around 1600 tons of solid waste per day and collects waste door-to-door using 160 trucks.
- Their integrated waste management approach focuses on segregation at source, decentralized processing, and scientific disposal.
- Best practices include integrating the informal sector, biomethanation plants, mandatory on-site disposal for new developments, and an app for citizen complaints.
- The goal is to become a zero garbage city through increasing awareness, promoting recycling and composting, and developing comprehensive centralized processing.
The presentation discusses The Nature Conservancy's experience with water funds. It summarizes that water funds are an innovative model for long-term watershed conservation where cities and other users provide steady funding to protect upstream lands through conservation actions. The Latin America Water Funds Partnership aims to create and strengthen at least 32 water funds in the region by 2015, impacting over 3 million hectares and benefiting over 50 million people. Examples of water funds in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru are provided.
Presented by IWMI's Director General, Claudia Sadoff, at the 3rd Karachi International Water Conference in Mövenpick Hotel, Karachi, Pakistan, on November 22, 2017.
ASLF Presents at The Great Plains LID Research and Innovation Symposium 04.03...aslfadmin
This document discusses the Atlantic States Legal Foundation's vacant lot program in Syracuse, NY. The program aims to transform vacant urban lots into green infrastructure that reduces combined sewer overflows. Some key points:
- ASLF established a vacant lot program to meet legal requirements to reduce CSOs with green infrastructure by 6.3% by 2018.
- The program identifies suitable vacant lots, many owned by the city, and works with the city and county to design and construct green infrastructure projects like rain gardens, urban orchards, and native plantings.
- Several pilot projects have been constructed, reducing runoff by over 100,000 gallons each.
- Challenges include previous land uses,
Green Spaces Making i Cities Happy , Healthy and Sustainable Places to lLiveJIT KUMAR GUPTA
The document discusses the importance of green spaces in cities. It notes that rapid urbanization is leading to congestion and a lack of open spaces in many cities. Green spaces provide health, environmental, social and economic benefits by improving air quality, encouraging physical activity, reducing stress, and increasing social interaction and property values. However, many factors like unplanned development, high land costs, and lack of priority given to open spaces have resulted in a shortage of green spaces in most cities, negatively impacting quality of life. The document argues that public health should be a key consideration in urban planning and that more priority needs to be given to incorporating and maintaining adequate green spaces in cities.
Environment and Health Status in Urban and Rural IndiaGAURAV. H .TANDON
Rural and urban areas in India face significant issues with water access and sanitation. In rural areas, most people lack piped water access and must collect water from sources like open wells or hand pumps, often spending significant time fetching water. Water quality is also an issue, with problems like arsenic contamination affecting millions of people. Sanitation infrastructure is similarly lacking, with most rural Indians practicing open defecation. In urban areas, piped supplies are unreliable and many cities face severe water shortages. Water theft and leakage exacerbate the problems in urban water systems. Overall, access to clean drinking water and sanitation remains inadequate in both rural and urban India.
This document provides information about landscape performance tools and resources. It discusses the Landscape Architecture Foundation's (LAF) mission to support environmental solutions through research and scholarships. It promotes measuring sustainability through frameworks like Living Building Challenge and outlines case studies comparing landscape project benefits. These benefits include water and energy reductions as well as increased social value. The document advertises the Landscape Performance Series online resource for metrics, case studies, fact libraries, and guidance on evaluating landscape project performance. It provides examples of project benefits and outcomes. In summary, the document promotes tools and resources for measuring and demonstrating landscape sustainability performance.
Presented by IWMI's Director General, Claudia Sadoff, at the 1st Lancang-Mekong Water Resources Cooperation Forum in Kunming, Yunnan, China, on November 1, 2018.
This document discusses ecosystem valuation, including what it is, why it is important, and how it can be done. Specifically:
- Ecosystem services include things like stormwater management, flood control, waste treatment, recreation, and more. Valuing these services is important to make informed decisions that consider environmental, social and economic factors.
- Valuing ecosystem services allows communities to recognize the benefits nature provides, such as water purification and carbon sequestration, and compare alternatives in a common financial language. This improves decision making.
- Case studies demonstrate that maintaining natural ecosystems like wetlands is often much more cost effective than engineered alternatives. Guidelines help standardize the valuation process to ensure rigor and transparency.
Green Infrastructure Basic Principles & Tools nado-web
Brownfields are vacant, underutilized, or contaminated properties that threaten human and environmental health, depress local economies, and reduce local tax revenues. Integrating green storm water infrastructure (GSI) into brownfields redevelopment has emerged as a national best practice, pushing the boundaries of sustainability ever outward and dramatically increasing the economic, environmental, and social benefits that brownfields revitalization can generate. This session will review salient principles of green infrastructure and showcase a GSI Templates tool, a GSI Decision Tree tool, and a basic project pro-forma worksheet that work in both small and large cities to help plan GSI at brownfield sites.
Eugene Goldfarb, Technical Assistance Provider, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, Manhattan, KS
Elizabeth Limbrick, Project Manager, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Margaret Renas, Lead, Community and Brownfield Redevelopment, Delta Institute, Chicago, IL
Matt Ward, CEO, Sustainable Strategies DC, Washington, DC
The document discusses green infrastructure as both a planning approach and stormwater management approach. As a planning approach, green infrastructure creates an interconnected network of natural areas that provides ecosystem services and benefits. As a stormwater management approach, it refers to systems that mimic natural processes to infiltrate, evapotranspirate, or reuse stormwater on-site. The document then provides examples of specific green infrastructure technologies and their stormwater management benefits, such as rain gardens capturing 30-80% of rainfall and reducing pollutants. Overall, the green infrastructure approach treats stormwater at its source, unlike traditional approaches that focus on rapid removal.
The document discusses solutions for providing clean drinking water and sanitation in India. It outlines several proposed models, including establishing reverse osmosis plants at the community level with funding from CSR initiatives or PPPs. Desalination plants along coastal areas and household solutions like chlorination or ceramic filters are also proposed. To address open defecation, the document recommends SHG-managed public toilets, ecosan toilets, and extensive awareness programs in schools and through media. Financial support could come from CSR, communities, or the state depending on the solution. Sustainability and persuading industries are obstacles to these solutions.
Coastal Degradation and fresh water pollution in sri lankaIsuru Zoysa
Coastal degradation and pollution are significant problems for Sri Lanka due to its long coastline and reliance on coastal areas for population settlement and tourism. Unplanned development has accelerated erosion and pollution issues. Fresh water pollution is also a concern due to urbanization, industrialization, pesticide usage, and some tourism activities. Improper management of urban and industrial waste further compounds the pollution problems. Recommendations include stronger regulations and enforcement, pollution prevention and mitigation efforts, sustainable tourism development, and additional research.
Marine pollution in sri lanka
A presentation Done by the 1st Year Students (Group 4) of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura for the Environmental Chemistry Assignment..
The document is a software requirements specification for a Water Management Portal. It includes sections that provide an introduction and overview, describe the overall system and specific requirements. The introduction describes the purpose of creating a web application to allow users to report water-related issues, view information, and allow city employees to update statuses. The overall description outlines the system interfaces, hardware requirements, communication methods, and constraints. It also includes use case and entity relationship diagrams. The specific requirements section describes use cases for different user types: visitors, administrators, city employees and residents.
Mountain Valley Pipeline, Analysis of Environmental IssuesJacqueline Tkac
The following report addresses the impacts of highest concern from residential community members as well as the scientific community. The primary focus of the report is on environmental impacts, especially relating to karst topography, but also addresses four non-environmental concerns of significant importance. These include economic issues, eminent domain, Appalachian culture, and community engagement. Our conclusions are based on a set of ten recommendations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), LLC that outline the need for oversight, mitigation, community engagement, and cumulative impact analysis. The approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline should be contingent on these recommendations.
Water management is a global issue and it is the prime duty of all the people to save and conserve water so that it can be passed on safely to the future generation. Viewers please watch the ppt and leave your likes and comments.
Many environmental problems are caused by human actions including pollution, deforestation, desertification, and habitat loss. Pollution is the accumulation of harmful substances in the air, water, and ground. Deforestation is the disappearance of forests from cutting down trees. Desertification is the transformation of landscapes into desert areas as the soil becomes dry and poor. Habitat loss occurs when natural areas are destroyed for housing and industry. Children can help address these issues by reducing garbage production, avoiding cutting down trees, and protecting natural areas.
The Defra Local Action Project has been working with local communities to enhance the value of natural capital in our towns, cities and other urban spaces to improve people’s lives, the environment & economic prosperity…For each Demonstration Area we have developed a suite of evidence and information resources to support the targeting and implementation of environmental management or enhancement actions in urban landscapes. On the 18th April 2016 the Westcountry Rivers Trust delivery team met with several key stakeholders and practitioners who work in Manchester to examine the preliminary outputs of the Local Action Project.
The Defra Local Action Project has been working with local communities to enhance the value of natural capital in our towns, cities and other urban spaces to improve people’s lives, the environment & economic prosperity. For each Demonstration Area we have developed a suite of evidence and information resources to support the targeting and implementation of environmental management or enhancement actions in urban landscapes. On the 7th April 2016 the Westcountry Rivers Trust delivery team met with the Thames Estuary Partnership to examine the preliminary outputs of the Local Action Project.
The document describes a local action project that aims to work with local communities to enhance natural capital in urban areas. It does this by providing evidence and resources to support targeting and implementing environmental management actions. The project will conduct a review of environmental assets and natural capital, assess benefits and priorities, and develop an "urban practitioners toolbox" of potential interventions. It will also produce detailed opportunity mapping. The project focuses on areas like Leicester and aims to quantify benefits, identify needs and opportunities, and support partnerships to increase funding and implementation of actions.
The document discusses design thinking principles and their application to addressing environmental issues in ASEAN countries. It outlines the design thinking process of empathizing, defining problems by understanding user needs, ideating solutions, prototyping ideas, and iterating based on feedback. Seven key environmental issues are identified: nature conservation and biodiversity; coastal and marine environment; water resources management; environmentally sustainable cities; climate change; chemicals and waste; and environmental education. For each issue, a proposed recommendation is provided, such as establishing urban farms, improving oil spill containment methods, reducing water pipeline leaks through new software, and promoting social entrepreneurship and hands-on learning about the environment.
The document discusses sustainability and green building standards from the American Planning Association (APA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). It outlines 13 policies to promote sustainability and summarizes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and credits that relate to planning issues, including alternative transportation, brownfield redevelopment, habitat protection, stormwater management, and water efficiency. The APA, USGBC, and American Institute of Architects are working to implement sustainability benchmarks and tools.
Public Agencies Meet Sustainable DesignRoss Johnson
The document discusses sustainability in planning and development. It provides an overview of standards and policies from organizations like the American Planning Association (APA) and US Green Building Council (USGBC). It outlines various sustainability indicators and policies that support compact development, renewable energy, water efficiency, and other goals. Incentives are important to promote green building practices in cities.
Public Agencies Meet Sustainable DesignRoss Johnson
The document discusses sustainability in planning and development. It provides an overview of key concepts like the APA's policy on sustainability. It outlines various indicators of unsustainability at global, lifestyle and community levels. It also summarizes the USGBC's LEED green building rating system and how it relates to planning issues. Finally, it discusses different policies and incentives that cities can implement to encourage more sustainable practices.
This document discusses sustainability in discretionary review processes. It highlights the environmental risks of climate change and over-reliance on fossil fuels. It examines how sustainable various cities are and provides tools for conducting sustainability reviews of plans, policies, regulations and development projects. These include impact modeling, checklist and guidelines. The document also outlines best practices for adapting to changing conditions, becoming self-sufficient and solving larger problems. It provides examples from the City of San Diego's general plan and sustainability efforts.
This document discusses urban planning and sustainability. It covers several topics:
1) The built environment includes everything constructed by humans like buildings, infrastructure, and parks. Urban planning aims to design functional and interconnected built spaces.
2) Large cities are generally seen as unsustainable due to environmental, economic, and social concerns like pollution, traffic, and inequality. However, large urban areas also provide benefits like innovation and cultural opportunities.
3) Achieving sustainable development requires balancing environmental, social, and economic concerns. Planners aim to conserve resources and minimize waste through strategies like compact urban growth and public transit investment.
Sustainability for Ag 101 Nottawasaga 21 jan 2014Nick Betts
Presentation was given to a room of farmers in Ontario, outlining the background to sustainability, how sustainability will affect you on-farm and how the industry is moving forward.
This document summarizes the keynote presentation on designing and planning for climate-smart communities given by Nancy Somerville and Neil Weinstein to the ASLA Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience. The presentation outlines core principles and design approaches for creating healthy, climate-smart, and resilient communities. It recommends public policies that support approaches using green infrastructure, transit-oriented development, protection of natural systems and vulnerable communities, among others. The document provides an overview of the presentation content including climate adaptation challenges and opportunities for landscape architects.
Green Growth Investment in Coastal AreasCIFOR-ICRAF
- Coastal wetlands provide significant carbon storage and ecosystem services related to climate resilience, fisheries productivity, and hydrology, making blue carbon a priority for mitigation and adaptation.
- However, lack of effective coastal management has led to uncontrolled land conversion and degradation, reducing resilience. This is driven by insufficient awareness, policies, and most financing supporting degrading activities.
- There is a need to improve governance, policies, and redirect financing away from degradation and toward "green growth" approaches like community-based restoration, sustainable aquaculture, and carbon sequestration projects to support sustainable development. Donors can help by investing in alternative business models and de-risking projects.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
The document discusses sustainable tourism and provides examples of sustainable business practices. It argues that sustainability creates long-term value by embracing opportunities and managing risks across economic, environmental and social issues. Sustainable tourism can benefit communities through cultural tourism, local spending and partnerships with NGOs. The right approach considers transportation, lodging, local purchasing and engaging with indigenous peoples while conserving resources.
On Friday, July 9th, the Central Texas American Planning Association (APA) learned by the Sustainable Sites Initiative from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's own Dr. Steve Windhager.
The goal of Sustainable Sites Initiative is to do for landscape design what LEED certification has done for building design. Under the Sustainable Sites Initiative, sites qualify for certification (1 star, 2 star, 3 star, and 4 star) based on a 250 point scale. As of June 2010, 174 pilot projects were started under the Sustainable Site Initiative.
This quick summary doesn't do Dr. Windhager's presentation justice, so check out his presentation complete with interesting facts about the ROI of urban forests and how New York street trees provide climate moderating benefits to the tune of $27.8 million.
Get more information about sustainable sites here: www.sustainablesites.org
Towards resource efficient and zero waste societies sitecmy
- Defines 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and zero waste as environmental concepts aimed at reducing waste generation and promoting more sustainable resource management.
- Notes that many government policies focus on downstream waste disposal rather than upstream waste prevention. Advocates for policies promoting greater resource efficiency through reducing consumption and waste.
- Provides examples of countries in Asia that have implemented policies and frameworks integrating 3Rs, resource efficiency and circular economy concepts into law and economic development plans. This includes Japan, Korea, China, India and others.
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WAMM South East Regional Workshop 27th Feb 2020CaBASupport
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The document discusses how Westcountry Rivers Trust uses data and evidence to support their catchment-based approach. They reference maps, conduct evidence reviews, and do spatial targeting to identify issues, needs, and opportunities. They also discuss monitoring design, output recording, and engagement strategies. Recent projects highlighted include urban benefits assessment and opportunity mapping, natural flood management engagement and targeting, input on the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan, and catchment water quality score cards.
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The document discusses land management solutions from the Trent Rivers Trust to reduce flood risk, improve water quality, and provide wetland habitat. These solutions include silt traps to catch silt, leaky dams to hold up water, field storage areas, re-profiling land, and woodland planting. The Trent Rivers Trust implements these solutions as part of its Willow Brook Catchment Project.
The community of Southwell in Nottinghamshire has experienced two major flood events in 2007 and 2013 that damaged over 300 homes. In response, local residents came together to form the Southwell Flood Forum to make the community more resilient to future flooding. The Forum has undertaken extensive volunteer work clearing waterways, established fundraising events raising over £22k, and created a community resilience plan with over 60 trained flood wardens. While continued challenges remain around maintaining engagement and mitigating complex flood risks, the Forum looks forward to partnering with other organizations to further strengthen Southwell's resilience.
CC2150 is a project that helps coastal communities in Kent County develop long-term visions and action plans to increase resilience to climate change impacts. The project identifies priority communities and works with local partners to build knowledge of climate risks, widen community engagement, and develop community-led visions and plans. Engagement is guided by principles of sustainability, community identity, evidence-based decisions, transparency, and local networks. A range of engagement methods, including workshops, events, and online platforms, facilitated the collection of over 3,000 pieces of feedback from over 800 engaged community members. The project has resulted in 3 visions and 11 action plans identifying 133 local actions, and provided £15k in grants to fund initial actions.
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The document discusses natural flood management interventions that will be funded and implemented in the future. £15 million in funding was announced to integrate natural flood management techniques into catchment-scale projects and community-led projects. The goals are to reduce flood and coastal erosion risks, improve habitats and biodiversity, contribute to research to address evidence gaps, and promote partnership working. Challenges include properly appraising, evaluating, and monitoring the interventions over time to understand their effectiveness.
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The document discusses opportunities for catchment partnerships under the PR19 regulatory framework for water companies in the UK. It notes that PR19 provides unprecedented opportunities for ambitious catchment management due to drivers from regulators, customers, government, and partnerships. Specifically, it outlines opportunities around outcomes and performance commitments related to protecting the natural environment, as well as focus areas like resilience, innovation, long-term planning, customer participation, and generating multiple benefits. It advises catchment partnerships to understand the motivations of key players like Ofwat and customers, know the intervention points to influence business plans and goals, and aim high in their ambitions.
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In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
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Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
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The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
3. The bigger picture in water
management
Ø Why planning for water matters
Ø How policy and plans join up
Ø Who is involved
Ø Opportunities to get multiple benefits
through partnerships and innovative
approaches
4. Planning for water: why does it
matter?
Too much, or too little water is bad
for business, the economy and
society:
Ø lost production and sales
Ø disrupted transport
Ø waste of resources
Ø poor quality environment and
social problems
Good planning and urban design
Ø reduces flooding
Ø increases water resilience
Ø improves water quality
Ø creates more liveable places
5. How integrated water management works in practice
Source:
WWT
and
RSPB
-‐
Sustainable
Drainage
Systems,
Maximising
the
Poten?al
for
People
and
Wildlife,
A
guide
for
Local
Authori?es
and
Developers
6. How policy and plans join up
Local
Plans
Surface
Water
Management
Plans
Water
Resource
Management
Plans
River
Basin
Management
Plans
NPPF
WFD
FWMA
Water
Acts
8. Who’s
involved?
Environment
Agency
Lead
Local
Flood
Authori@es
Local
Planning
Authori@es
Water
and
Sewerage
Companies
Highway
Authori@es
Local
wildlife
and
conserva@on
groups
Local
Communi@es
Catchment
partnerships
Natural
England
Farmers
and
land
managers
Local
Enterprise
Partnerships
Local
businesses
and
developers
9. Understand
issues
Develop
collabora?on
Build
capacity
Catchment
partnership
L
P
A
IDB
LLFA
N
E
Business
BeMer
Water
quality
Sustainable
drainage
Water
efficiency
Local
environment
Biodiversity
How
the
Catchment
–based
approach
works:
Partnerships,
process
and
outcomes
Sustainable
development
10. Ø Reduce flood risk
Ø Improve and regenerate urban areas
Ø Enhance biodiversity
Ø Improve water availability and quality
Ø Enable new housing
Ø Facilitate business growth
Opportunities from integrating
water management
Mul@ple
benefits!
11. Mul@ple
benefits
Partnership
working
Flood risk
managed &
reduced
Better access
and green
space
urban areas
regenerated
Housing
and
business
growth
More
effective
use of
resources
With good
partnerships you
can have it all!
Biodiversity
enhanced
Improved
water
quality
13. The risks from inaction:
Ø Poorly planned
development reducing
water and environmental
quality and increasing
flood risk
Ø Water supply and waste
water disposal constraints
on development
Ø Missed opportunities for
cost-saving
Ø Poorer quality urban
environments
Urban water management
is important
The benefits of getting it right:
Ø Regenerated towns and cities
Ø Enhanced biodiversity
Ø Improved water availability and
quality
Ø More green space
Ø Improved public realm and
people’s access to it
Ø Enabling new housing
Ø Facilitating business growth
19. LOCAL ACTION PROJECT
STRATEGIC DATA, EVIDENCE
+ INFORMATION
Present robust evidence in a clear way to
help build consensus,facilitate local
decision-making & secure funding
VALUINGTHE BENEFITS FROM
NATURAL CAPITAL
Develop a clear understanding of the social,
cultural, environmental and economic
benefits provided by natural capital in urban
landscapes and estimating potential
improvements
LOCAL CHOICES, PRIORITIES
+ AMBITIONS
Talk to the local community and civil
society groups to discover their future
vision and ambition for where they live
FUNDING + RESOURCES
FOR ACTION
Support the formation of effective
stakeholder-led partnerships by increasing
engagement, mobilising local delivery
organisations and tapping into funding
sources
Working with local communities to enhance the value of natural capital in our
towns, cities and other urban spaces to improve people’s lives, the environment &
economic prosperity…
LOCALACTIONPROJECT
24. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Area(km²)
Natural Environment
Domestic Garden
Natural Surface
Inland Water
Urban
Other
CURRENT ASSETS
Land-cover Composition
Green Wedges
These areas of land offer a space for recreation and nature
conservation, providing a “green lung into urban areas”. They
have been included in the planning policy for Leicester and
Leicestershire for many years.
River Sence
This is the longest tributary
of the River Soar at around
~28km in length.
This map shows the main areas of natural infrastructure
across Leicester and the surrounding wards. There is a
diverse collection of natural habitats and green/blue
spaces across the area; including the wetlands and
riverine habitats to the north of the city, around
Watermead, and species-rich grassland to the
south at Aylestone Meadows Local Nature Reserve.
25. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
CURRENT ASSETS…continued
These maps illustrate the high level of detail that is available for mapping green and
blue infrastructure, in Leicester. Data is mapped for two example wards; Rushey
Mead Ward and a detailed section of Abbey Park and the surrounding area in
AbbeyWard.
Due to the detailed mapping and high resolution datasets provided
by Leicester City Council, we are able to view features such as outdoor
sports areas, play areas and street trees.
Rushey Mead Ward
Abbey Park in Abbey Ward
NATURAL CAPITAL
27. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
BENEFITS ASSESSMENT
To target and implement interventions that enhance natural capital effectively have
developed a series of metrics that assess the current benefits being
experienced by people and the environment.
Each metric is a measure with the potential to be
enhanced through natural solutions.
Access to Green Space
Percentage of people that meet the criteria outlined in Natural
England’s ANGSt (Accessible Natural Greenspace Standard).
Air Quality (PM10)
Mean concentration of PM10 modelled
for 2016, derived from background
maps from the UK-AIR data archive.
Flood Risk (Rivers and Sea)
Number of buildings that have a
greater than 1 in 100 year chance of
flooding from rivers and/or sea.
WFD Ecological Status
The 2014 Water Framework Directive
ecological status for the surrounding
river waterbody catchment.
Average House Price
Mean price for a two-bedroom
house in December 2015.
Flood Damage Cost (Rivers and Sea)
Estimated costs incurred due to flood damage
from rivers and sea, based on figures used in the
EA National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA).
Aesthetic value of landscape
Number of nature-related photos taken in
the area that have been uploaded to Flickr
and tagged accordingly.
Cultural Activity
Number of recreational facilities per 1000 people,
including places such as allotments, sports clubs.
Flood Risk (Surface Water)
Number of buildings that have a
greater than 1 in 100 year chance of
flooding from surface water.
Climate Regulation
Percentage of land area that is carbon
/GHG-sequestering habitats of
woodland, grassland, wetland or scrub.
Priority Habitat
Percentage of ward area that is
described as a priority habitat in
Natural England’s Priority Habitats
Inventory.
BENEFITS
• Ward-scale analysis
• Metrics represent range of
values in Leicester
• White spaces represent
opportunity for improvement
Low Flows
The water availability value of river
waterbody catchments, according to
the EA’s Catchment Abstraction
Management Strategy (CAMS).
28. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
BENEFITS SUMMARY
13. Beaumont Leys
Pop – 16,480
37. Abbey
Pop – 14,926
6. Western Park
Pop – 10,609
8. Fosse
Pop – 13,072
16. New Parks
Pop – 17,128
21. Westcotes
Pop – 11,644
17. Freemen
Pop – 10,949
44. Castle
Pop – 22,901
12. Charnwood
Pop – 13,291
22. Coleman
Pop – 14,669
23. Belgrave
Pop – 11,558
35. Spinney Hills
Pop – 25,571
43. Stoneygate
Pop – 20,390
45. Latimer
Pop – 12,457
30. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
OPPORTUNITY AREAS
The final step of this assessment is to identify key areas for improvement and
investigate areas of priority, opportunity and feasibility for implementing
measures at these sites.
1. Key areas of opportunity across Leicester, such as potential development
sites (including regeneration and brownfield sites) and proposed
wildlife sites.
Potential Sites for Nature
Potential for expanding local sites for nature in
Leicester. There are a number of proposed Local
Nature Reserves and Local Wildlife Sites, which if
designed effectively could produce a number of
benefits for the wider area.
Ashton Green
Abbey Meadows
Waterside Regeneration
31. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
TARGET AREA IDENTIFICATION
Landscape Priority Area 1
LowerWillowbrookWards
45. Latimer
- Very poor air quality
- High flood risk from rivers and sea
- Very high surface water flood risk (and damage costs)
- Low carbon storage
- Low property values
12. Charnwood
- Very poor air quality
- Very high flood risk from rivers and sea
- Very high surface water flood risk (and damage costs)
- Low provision of cultural activity resources
- Very low habitat provision and low carbon storage
- Very low property values
35. Spinney Hills
- Very poor air quality
- High flood risk from rivers and sea
- Very high surface water flood risk (and damage costs)
- Low provision of cultural activity resources
- Low carbon storage
- Low property values
22. Coleman
- Low access to green space and very poor air quality
- Very high flood risk from rivers and sea and surface water, as well as
very high predicted costs of damages
- Low provision of cultural activity resources
- Low carbon storage
- Very low property values
2. Using the information gathered from the previous sections, we are able to identify wards
that could benefit the most from increased or improved environmental infrastructure
and also what types of interventions are appropriate to meet those needs.
32. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
TARGET AREA IDENTIFICATION
Landscape Priority Area 1
LowerWillowbrookWards
3. Perform high resolution hydrological and suitability analyses to identify candidate sites
for specific interventions – these sites can then be ‘worked-up’ with resource/funding
sought, community consultation,optioneering, design and delivery.
34. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
URBAN TOOLBOX
Splits into FOUR broad approaches -
• Restoration / regeneration of urban environments
• GI or SuDS in new development
• Retrofit or greening actions
• Increased functionality – e.g. increased amenity or
access
• For each intervention we have developed
factsheets including cost and benefits info
AND include opportunity/feasibility criteria to
facilitate mapping/scenario development
35. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
Rain Gardens are usually small vegetated depressions in
the ground created mainly in residential areas to take
surface water run-off from roofs and hard surfaces.
RAIN GARDEN
Infiltration, bio-retention, soakaways
+ They but can vary significantly in size and are sometimes also called
‘bio-retention cells’
+ Aid infiltration by slowing water down and increasing soil permeability
+ Reducing runoff through root uptake of water and transpiration
+ Can act to remove pollutants from water – especially if wetland areas
are incorporated into the design
+ Aesthetically pleasing and can improve QoL and landscape value
IMPLEMENTATION
Rain gardens mimic the natural water retention of undeveloped land and reduce
the volume of water entering drains so they need to be hydrologically connected
Costs: £20-270+/m2 dependent on size and context.
Due to high variability of design and situation.£ £ £
Maintenance: low dependent on context but mainly
litter/sediment removal. Plants need to endure
waterlogged as well as dry conditions.
£ £ £
Stress levels
Wellbeing
Exposure to nature
Outdoor Learning
x
Allergy risk
Aesthetic quality can
degrade if not managedFeasibility: Can be used for retrofit in residential, industrial or
urban areas. Hydrological connectivity must exist or be created
36. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
RAIN GARDEN
Infiltration, bio-retention, soakaways
Stakeholder
dialogue
Partnership
working
Benefits/value
assessment
CASESTUDIES
Strategic
targeting
Practical delivery
of measures
The Rain Garden Guide
This guide is intended to help the homeowner or property manager
to create a simple rain garden within their own property.
www.raingardens.info/the-rain-garden-guide
Rain garden: design, construction and maintenance
recommendations based on a review of existing
systems
N. Somes, M. Potter, Joe Crosby and M Pfitzner.
In order to better understand factors that contribute to the
successful implementation of street scale Water Sensitive Urban
Design (WSUD) assessments were undertaken at 22 sites across
Melbourne.
www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/ircsa/pdf/13th/Somes.pdf
Evaluating rain gardens as a method to reduce the
impact of sewer overflows in sources of drinking water
Autixier L, Mailhot A, Bolduc S, Madoux-Humery AS, Galarneau M,
Prévost M, Dorner S.
Science of the Total Environment (2014) 499:238-47
Rain gardens were evaluated for their reduction of volumes of water
entering the drainage network and of CSOs.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25192930
SuDS for Schools -
The SuDS for Schools project is working with ten schools in the
Pymmes Brook catchment in North London to design and build
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in the school grounds.
www.sudsforschools.wwt.org.uk/
Ashby Grove residential retrofit rain garden, London
The Ashby Grove rain garden retrofit is designed to remove roof
water from a social housing block in Islington. The aim is to
disconnect one of the roof downpipes and allow water to flow
directly into a newly designed rain garden.
tinyurl.com/zpowlef
Islington Raingarden
The Ashby Grove raingarden in Islington was designed and
constructed as a practical example of what can be done in small
landscape spaces as suggested in the Islington SuDS Design Guide.
robertbrayassociates.co.uk/projects/islington-raingarden
Strutts Centre Rain Garden, Belper
Trent Rivers Trust have just completed this National Demonstration
Sustainable Drainage scheme (SuDS) designed by national expert Bob
Bray, on a grade II listed building.
www.trentriverstrust.org/site/Rain-Gardens
37. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
Trees can perform a number of functions that in turn
provide a number of different benefits to people in urban
landscapes -
TREES
Street trees, tree pits, urban forest
+ Improving air quality by trapping pollutants
+ Intercepting rainfall to slow the rate of water reaching the ground
+ Increasing infiltration by creating permeable surfaces
+ Reducing runoff through root uptake of water and transpiration
+ Trees are also aesthetically pleasing natural features in an urban
landscape and thus provide many less tangible benefits that improve
people’s quality of life, health and wellbeing
IMPLEMENTATION
Trees are very versatile and can be used in a variety of situations. The benefits
produced depend on their size, species, location and style of delivery.
Costs per singular tree: £100-400
(including planting and initial maintenance)£ £ £
Maintenance: mainly pruning
(as part of landscape management)£ £ £
stress levels
exercise frequency
New-born health
exercise frequency
New-born health
Property damage:
roots, litter, shading
x
allergy risk
Can block views
Feasibility: can be planted in pavements large enough to receive
them. Cab planted on existing GI or in new developments
38. LOCALACTIONPROJECT
TREES
Street trees, tree pits, urban forest
Stakeholder
dialogue
Partnership
working
Benefits/value
assessment
CASESTUDIES
Strategic
targeting
Practical delivery
of measures
Urban Forest Effects Model (UFORE) & i-Tree Eco
The Urban Forest Effects Model (UFORE) is a science-based, peer-
reviewed computer model designed to assess and quantify urban
forest ecosystem services, based on field data inputs and external
datasets (e.g. weather and pollution). It was adapted for inclusion
with the i-Tree software suite from the USDA Forest Service, and
was subsequently renamed as i-Tree Eco.
www.itreetools.org
Longitudinal effects on mental health of moving to
greener and less green urban areas.
Alcock I, White MP, Wheeler BW, Fleming LE, Depledge MH.
Environmental Science & Technology (2014) 21; 48 (2):1247-55.
Moving to greener urban areas was associated with sustained mental
health improvements, suggesting that environmental policies to
increase urban green space may have sustainable public health
benefits.
Torbay's Urban Forest
The study (the first of its kind in the UK) used the i-Tree Eco model
(developed by the US Forest Service, and based on peer reviewed
research) to quantify the structure, and some of the major
environmental benefits delivered by Torbay’s trees.
www.torbay.gov.uk/tuf.pdfitreetools.org
StreetTree London
Street Tree is a non-profit making company founded on the belief
that trees should form an integral part of the urban landscape. Our
aim is to increase London's tree stock, working with Local
Authorities, Fund-holders, and business partners, to promote street
trees and the many benefits they bring.
www.streettree.org
Red Rose Forest – Green Streets Case Studies
Red Rose Forest's Green Streets team is dedicated to making our
towns and cities greener and more attractive places to live, work and
invest. They plant street trees, deliver bespoke street greening
projects, create places to grow food, greenspace improvement, plant
community woodlands and orchards, build green roofs and improve
school grounds.
tinyurl.com/j3vhpxm
Wirral StreetTrees Programme
A tree planting programme that is helping to transform Wirral into a
thriving economic hub. By April this year over 600 trees across 8km
will have been planted in streets and green spaces, as part of a three-
year programme to link residential areas to places of employment
and training.
tinyurl.com/jn5ggpd
46. • Growing
body
of
evidence
of
effec<veness
of
GI
in
tackling
problems
with
water
environment.
• Builds
on
work
undertaken
over
previous
years
by
RRF,
EA
and
UoM
to
tackle
Urban
Diffuse
Pollu<on.
• Builds
also
on
Urban
Catchment
Forestry
ideas.
• Ini<ally
funded
by
EA
(with
some
addi<onal
support
from
EU).
• Developed
with
input
from
colleagues
in
EA
and
CaBA
.
• Further
sessions
planned
with
EA
and
Catchment
Partnership
to
iden<fy
ways
to
strengthen
model
and
take
forward.
Background
47. • There
has
been
a
focus
on
rural
problems
and
opportuni<es
(Forest
Research).
• Recent
work
on
Urban
Diffuse
Pollu<on
has
concentrated
on
loca<ons
of
greatest
need,
and
been
broad
in
scale.
But
this
model:
• Aims
to
highlight
loca<ons
of
genuine
opportunity,
at
catchment
scale.
• Guide
design/selec<on
of
GI
interven<ons.
• Focus
on
both
issues
of
quality
and
quan<ty.
• Guide
cost
effec<ve
deployment
of
GI.
Purpose
49.
Approach
Issues
of
water
management
and/or
quality
Likely
pathways
from
source
to
receptor
(ie
watercourse
or
flood
zone)
Opportuni0es
for
GI
to
disrupt
pathway
60. • Guidance
on
loca<on:
– To
highlight
loca<ons
with
highest
co-‐incidence
of
opportuni<es
and
to
iden<fy
the
range
of
projects/interven<ons
that
would
be
most
appropriate
in
that
loca<on.
– To
highlight
loca<ons
where
a
specific
given
project
should
be
delivered
to
have
greatest
impact.
• To
provide
addi<onal
evidence
of
need,
to
support
a
given
specific
project.
• Guidance
on
improving
the
design
of
a
given
project
in
order
to
elicit
maximum
mul<ple
benefits
(i.e.
designing
a
street
tree
scheme
to
integrate
with
road
drainage
to
protect
a
local
watercourse).
How
the
Model
Can
be
Used
61. • Weigh0ng
-‐
Each
dataset
in
the
model
has
been
weighted
equally
when
overlaid.
• Spa0al
priori0sa0on
-‐
Further
spa<al
priori<sa<on
would
allow
the
model
to
beZer
indicate
where
the
greatest
impact
could
be
achieved
e.g.
IntermiZent
Discharges.
• Other
Assump0ons
–
Highways
drains,
CSW,
deliverability
• Addi0onal
refinement
–
Filtering
out
residen<al
streets
lacking
space
for
trees?
Filtering
out
less
busy
roads?
Refinement
62. • Tackling
issues
of
quan<ty
will
have
beneficial
impact
on
quality.
• Highlights
loca<ons
with
the
greatest
scope
for
GI
interven<ons.
• Doesn’t
replace
need
for
site
survey,
but
directs
effort
at
catchment
scale.
• Being
used
by
the
EA
and
Catchment
Partnership
to
inform
projects
that
address
UDP.
In
Summary
63. -SuDS-
urban spaces for water, wildlife and people
Andy
Graham
–
Head
of
Community
Working
Wetlands
66. SuDS
for
Schools
10
schools
–
one
catchment
2000+
students
engaged
Knowledge,
skills
and
confidence
Cleaner
stream,
new
habitats
Healthy,
connected
people
InspiraIonal
places
Transformed
learning
–
not
just
the
students
67.
68.
69.
70. “Love
the
garden.
The
children
sit
at
the
benches
by
the
garden
every
break
and
lunch8me”
Susi
Earnshaw
72. What
a
wonderful
day
we
had!
It
exceeded
all
our
expecta8ons.
Thank
you
so
much
for
everything.
Please
pass
on
our
thanks
to
all
your
colleagues
who
made
it
such
a
successful
event.
Mr
Westmore,
AcIng
Head
Teacher
SuDS
are
now
well
and
truly
in
the
Hollickwood
consciousness,
and
also
of
all
our
community
guests,
(I
see
that
all
the
parents'
Facebook
pages
are
going
crazy
tonight
with
admiring
comments
about
our
SuDS!).
Linden
Groves,
Parent
&
Gardening
CommiQee
73. -‐Transforming
the
Salthill
catchment
in
Slough-‐
mulIple
benefits
–
broader
support
Health
and
well-‐being
strategies
Reduced
(fear
of)
crime
Engagement
-‐
community
cohesion
Skills,
knowledge
–
jobs
Cleaner
streams
(WFD)
Reduced
flood
risk
(SWMP)
CC
adaptaIon
Wetlands
and
wildlife
(GI)
74. Prince
of
Wales
community
wetland
Urban
regeneraIon
–
blue/green
infrastructure
2ha
of
new
urban
wetlands
SuDS
to
clean
road-‐run-‐off
Community
co-‐design
and
management
Skills,
training,
empowerment,
civic
pride
75. • Engage
early
• Build
broad
support
-‐
who
benefits?
• CollaboraIve
design
• Be
prepared
to
adapt
• Community
management
• Planners
and
permissions
hQp://www.wwt.org.uk/uploads/documents/1400927422_
Sustainabledrainagesystemsguide.pdf
78. § Founded 1960
§ Not for profit
§ Independent / collaborative
approach
§ Member-based, around 500
corporate members
§ Focus on performance
improvement
§ Cross sector / inter
disciplinary
CIRIA?
81. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
The team
§ The role of champions
§ Disciplines
• Engineers
• Landscape architects
• Urban designers
• Communication
§ Partners
§ The community
85. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
§ Comprehensive update/re-write
§ 36 chapters
• Philosophy & approach
• Applying the approach
• Technical detail
• Supporting guidance
§ Key themes covering
• Delivery of four design objectives
• Overcoming site challenges
• Delivering SuDS in urban areas
• Integration
§ Free download
The SuDS
Manual
86. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
Retrofitting
§ Two approaches
• Strategic
• Nibbling
§ Underpinned by a
framework
§ Dependencies
• Urban design
• Engagement
• Business models
§ Free download
87. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
Engagement
§ Overview of engagement
§ Principles
§ Framework
• Opportunities
• Identifying stakeholders
• Preparing a plan
• Deliver and monitor
§ Skills
§ Techniques
§ Free downloads
88. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
§ Approach to assessing benefits
§ Support practitioners to value
the quantity and monetary
benefit
§ Looking at monetising 14
benefits
§ Compare drainage options
§ Support discussions and
funding partnerships
§ Free download
Benefits of SuDS Tool
89. www.ciria.org | www.susdrain.org
Confidence
§ Good to talk
§ Capacity building
§ Training
• Intro to SuDS
• SuDS design
• SuDS and planning
§ Organisations
• CIRIA
• CABA
• Consultancies
94. a planners perspective of balance
Climate change
Environmental issues
Localism
Today’s pressures
Viability of town centres
Public interest
Economic recession
Meeting housing needs
Long term strategies
Brownfield development
Retail ‘market forces’
Individual interest
98. Establish principles - engage
WORKS IN THE RIVER CHANNEL
STAGE ONE
ESTABLISH PRINCIPLES
E
S
T
A
B
L
I
S
H
PUSH FOR LARGE SCALE IMPROVEMENTS
LAND AND WATER CONSIDERED
TOGETHER
ONGOING MAINTENANCE
WHO? HOW?
OPEN UP RIVER CHANNELS
PUBLIC ACCESS
SMALL SCALE WORKS ONLY POSSIBLE
SPACE OR FLOOD RISK
RESTRICTIONS
LIMIT COSTS TO COUNCIL
99. Initial discussions - agree
EXPECTATIONS
COSTS FED INTO VIABILITY
RELATIONSHIPS
WITH EA - CONSISTENCY
STAGE TWO
INITIAL DISCUSSION
PRE APPLICATION
C
O
N
S
I
D
E
R
A
T
I
O
N
S
IMPORTANCE OF THE RIVER
POLICY CONTEXT
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
ADDRESS THE RIVER
LOCAL POLICY?
DISCUSSION WITH USER GROUPS
100. Planning application - formalise
STAGE THREE
PLANNING APPLICATION
S
U
B
M
I
T
T
E
D
I
N
F
O
R
M
A
T
I
O
N
RIVER IMPACT STUDY
DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT
BIODIVERSITY SURVEY AND REPORT
ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT
FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT
LANDSCAPE SCHEME
OPEN SPACE ASSESSMENT
DAYLIGHT/SUNLIGHT ASSESSMENT
106. CaBA
Evalua5on
• Leveraged
funding
4:1
rela5ve
to
ini5al
Defra
investment
• Increased
scale,
depth
and
integra5on
of
engagement
across
water
management
issues
• More
cost
effec5ve
delivery
• Captures
local
knowledge
and
exper5se;
greater
community
engagement
• Driving
a
more
holis5c
and
integrated
approach
• Mul5ple
benefits
realised
through
collabora5ve
working
107. Mul5ple
Benefits
• Flood
Risk
Management
• Improved
Water
Quality
and
Quan5ty
• Climate
Resilience
• Biodiversity
• Green
(&
Blue)
Spaces
• Community
Health
and
Well-‐being
• Business
Growth
• Urban
re-‐genera5on
108.
109. Urban Pollution
• Misconnections;
CaBA
Partnerships,
LA’s
&
Water
Companies
• Diffuse
Urban
Runoff
• Category
3
Pollution
Monitoring
• Community
Engagement
and
Awareness
Raising
113. CaBA Partnerships provide an ideal vehicle to mobilise debate
between flood threatened communities and those
organisations (& individuals) able to enact mitigation action
Influence
of
the
wider
catchment
upon
towns
and
ci5es
115. A
partnership
approach;
Soar
Catchment
Partnership,
City
Council,
EA,
LEP
Flood
Risk
Management
in
the
Soar
underpinned
by
data
and
evidence
116.
117. Catchment
Partnerships
–
the
benefits
of
collabora5ve
working
Rob
Collins
The
Rivers
Trust
rob@theriverstrust.org
118. 1.
What
are
the
opportuni5es
you
see
to
delivering
sustainable
and
collabora5ve
urban
water
management
and
how
can
any
barriers
be
overcome?
2.
What
key
elements
of
urban
water
management
should
be
captured
in
local
plans
and
policies?
3.
How
can
those
plans/polices
be
influenced
119. The Sankey Framework- setting water management into a wider context
Rick Rogers
Environmental Planning
St Helens Council
120. Sankey Valley Project
• 15 mile corridor
• Integrated approach across
- Economy, Visitor Economy;
- Heritage;
- Biodiversity;
- Hydrology;
- Health;
- Access to Employment;
- Recreation
Vision:
“Create and manage a 15-mile long
green corridor from Spike Island, Widnes,
through Warrington, to Carr Mill Dam, St
Helens which provides outdoor
recreation opportunities for the Mid-
Mersey Region. Benefiting the visitor
economy, the corridor is important for
recreation, heritage, health and
wellbeing, water management and
wildlife”.
121. Project Aims
• To safeguard, enrich and promote the Cultural Heritage of the Sankey Valley and the Sankey
Canal Corridor;
• To develop a functioning hydrological catchment which minimises the frequency and
intensity of flooding within the Sankey Catchment, assists in improving the quality of the
water environment and maximises the water resource for recreational and biodiversity
needs;
• To improve the quality of the valley as a functioning ecological corridor through appropriate
habitat management and creation;
• To increase the connectivity of the valley for sustainable commuting and recreational
purposes;
• To maximise the potential of the Sankey Valley as a visitor destination and economic asset;
• To promote the use of the Sankey Valley for health and wellbeing.
122. Catchment Framework Plan(s)
Project Portfolio development
Ideas, Issues and Opportunities
Hydrology Biodiversity Heritage Health Economy Access Recreation
Strategic
• What? Project Vision, aim, objective
• Why? Policy review
• Where? Sankey Valley > Needs Assessment Issues / Themes
• Who Benefits? – audience?
• How? Partnership : St Helens BC, Warrington BC , Halton BC, Environment Agency,
Healthy Waterways Trust, Groundwork , Mersey Forest, Wildlife Trusts,
Natural England , Canal River Trust, SCARS, LFAU, Canal and Rivers Trust,
United Utilities, Natural England, RSPB, MEAS, Merseyside Archaeological Society,
Merseyside Industrial Archeology Society
123. Aim:
To develop a functioning
hydrological catchment
which minimises the
frequency and intensity of
flooding within the Sankey
catchment , assists in
improving water quality
and maximises the
resource for recreation and
biodiversity
Water quality
Water & Land
Management
Stakeholder
Workshop 1
• Identifying
Issues
• Current
activities
• Opportunities
• Knowledge
gaps
A
N
A
L
Y
S
I
s
Stakeholder
Workshop 2
• Project
Ideas
• Synergies
Stage 1 Projects
Development of Project Portfolio
( Co-ordination Group)
Hydrology Process
124. Sankey Catchment Plan
Surface Water
Management Plans
EA Programmes
UU AMP
ProgrammesHLF Landscape
Partnership Bid
Planning Policy /
Development Control
Delivery Mechanisms
126. Broad Zones
Slow and Filter Zone
e.g. Leaky dams, grass margins to
channels, off-line storage
Urban Intervention Zone
e.g. daylight culverts, create wet
woodlands, swales, embankments,
channel modification, mine water
amelioration through reedbeds
Discharge Zone
e.g. Create new channel between
Sankey Brook and lower reaches of
Sankey canal
128. Examples of multi-functional benefits : Debris Dams at Stanley Bank
• Slowing flow on Stanley Brook;
• Built using Employment Training scheme via
Groundwork;
• Providing water quality improvements;
• Improving the condition of a SSSI * Natural Solutions to Flooding KTP project
129. Engine Lock Enhancement – Broad Oak St Helens
• Water management;
• Access Improvement;
• Local Wildlife Site enhancement –de-silting a wetland.
• Heritage enhancement – rediscovering a lost canal lock;
130. Catchment approach to flood risk
management
Derek Antrobus
Chair,
North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee
131.
132.
133.
134. NW RFCC - 2030 Vision
• Need for catchment wide approach to water management
• Need for greater impetus on ‘Slow The Flow’
• Need to use ‘Communities at Risk’ approach
• River Basin Management Plan alignments
142. Summary:
• Work with Environment Agency and contribute to partnership
funding to enable schemes to proceed
• Embed flood risk in strategic planning and planning policy
documents to deliver resilient development
• Retrofit existing homes and businesses with property level
resilience measures
• Work with communities to ensure that they are prepared for flooding
• Ensure that drainage infrastructure reduced flood risk
• Work with others at a catchment level to deliver natural flood
management
• Think about the resilience of wider infrastructure
143. Water Management in Greater
Manchester – the story so far
Will Horsfall, Salford City Council
Natural Capital Group
GM’s Local Nature Partnership
148. 1970s – 1990s Greater Manchester
River Valleys
• Greater Manchester Council - Joint River
Valley Partnerships
• River Valley Local Plans
• Land Reclamation
• Joint Ranger Services
• Joint Committees
• Clear local authority leadership
149.
150. Reducing resources, pressure on
priorities
Croal Irwell Valley
Mersey Valley
Etherow Goyt Valley
Bollin Valley
Tame Valley
Medlock Valley
Douglas Valley
Bollin Valley
Irk Valley
Not primarily about water quality .. Land restoration and
recreation
151.
152. Multi sector partnership
• Backed by government
• Long term – improvements to Mersey Basin
water quality
• Private sector - key partners
• United Utilities, Environment Agency
• Voluntary sector and local community – local
action
154. Catchment Based Approach
• Government sees third sector playing a key
role
• Co-ordination and leadership
• Supported by EA, UU, local authorities
• Local people and volunteers
• EA River Basin Management Plans
• Local Catchment Plans?
155. Progress so far in GM
• Four Catchment Management Partnerships
• Established Rivers Return Irwell Catchment
Pilot – Irwell Catchment Management Plan
• Water Framework Directive – big challenge
156.
157. EU LIFE Integrated Project
‘This project will be a game changer in
managing the water environment through co-
ordination, collaboration and convergence’
• 10 year project
• 17 million Euros
• Initial focus on Irwell Catchment
159. 2010 Lawton Review
Making Space for Nature
‘Bigger, Better, Joined up’
‘The Natural Choice – securing the value of
nature’
Government White Paper on Natural
Environment – June 2011
160. Natural Capital Group
Membership
• Lancashire Wildlife Trust – Chair Anne Selby
• United Utilities – Vice Chair Chris Matthews
• Co-operative Group
• Canals and Rivers Trust
• Environment Agency & Natural England
• AGMA – Low Carbon Hub & Planning and Housing & Flood Risk
Management Board
• Council for Protection of Rural England & North West Environment Link
• Salford University
• Manchester University
• Salford City Council – theme lead Will Horsfall 0.2 fte
• Public Health representative
• Red Rose Forest
• Greater Manchester Ecology Unit
161. Vision
• ‘The Natural Capital Group will promote the natural
environment, co-ordinate activity across green
infrastructure, waterways and biodiversity and develop
their understanding of key ecosystem services across
GM’.
• ‘The group will highlight the importance and role of
natural capital with the opportunities of health and
wellbeing and the role that natural capital plays in
climate resilience whilst promoting sustainable economic
growth’.
162. Some issues
• Lots of examples of brilliant water related
projects led by third sector, local people,
councils, UU, EA
• Local focus … less strategic activity, catchment
scale
• Invasives – giant hogweed
166. Some issues – lessons from the past
• Leadership
• Engagement of all key players – at the right level
• Key contributions from all partners
• Planning – joint Local Plans vs National Planning
Policy Framework
• Compare with Lead Local Flood Authority role –
opportunity
LIFE Integrated Project – real opportunity
180. Engagement project
• Upper Mersey – Nameless tributary
• Catchment Partnership project
• River improvement
• River survey indicates misconnections
• Engaging public to find misconnections
• Name the stream competition & vote
181. Evidence-based
Approach
• Locate the inputs to a local river
• Take water samples at hotspots
• Analyse to establish likely source
• Prioritise
• Deal with each
source accordingly.
182. • Primary ground survey of
the waterbody
• Target identified reaches
• Identify points for wet
weather sampling
River Survey
192. Next Steps
• Roll out the methodology to other urban areas
• Already incorporated into three other projects
In Mersey Basin
• Monitor issues
• Simple water tests
• Follow up investigations
Bring in volunteer help locally
• Promoting this technique
• Working with CaBA Urban working group
Nationally
193. To address Urban Diffuse Water Pollution
issues:
• Evidence-based project
• Engaging the public locally
• Targeting issues found in river surveys
• Local scale
• One brook at a time.
More urban surveys
197. How does the urban demonstrator fit in with our
wider data & evidence approach?
Local knowledge
and experience
Mentoring & Regional Hubs
Wider evidence base of Data & GIS
198. How does the urban demonstrator fit in with our
wider data & evidence approach?
OpenData ++Re-purposed data
from models
1234
1
2
3
4
199. We already have problems in urban areas and
they are likely to get worse
“David Balmforth, Ex president of the ICE”
202. What can an integrated urban model (surface
water and sewerage) tell us?
• More reliable identification of source
areas?
• A much fuller conceptual understanding of
urban hydrology?
• The example we will look at is in
Cambridge.
204. Six flood models
in the catchment
What information can we extract from flood risk
modelling in urban areas?
Physical
barriers
A more complete picture to understand fish
passage in our urban environment?
205. • Licensing model software?
• Licensing model data, input and output?
• Technical knowledge and expertise?
• Trust. Model outputs can look good even if input data is
weak?
• Partnership.....LA, Water Company and others.
• There is much more knowledge/evidence out there...we
just need to re-purpose it.
• This sort of evidence can make a difference .......
What is stopping us making more use of model
input and output to understand urban hydrology
better?
207. 1
Evidence & Measures
Working with Stakeholders to Implement Evidence-Based Measures
Prepared by Paul Hulme and Nick Rukin for the CaBA UrbanWorkshops, 15 & 18 Mar 2016
Moston Brook:
Evidence,Actions & Funding
Moston Brook Evidence & Measures ProjectTeam
Danielle Tallboys Danielle.talboys@environment-agency.gov.uk
Nick Rukin rukin@rukhydro.co.uk
Paul Hulme paul.hulme@pjhydro.co.uk
Paul Hulme
208. 2
Three Evidence & Measures
Catchments in the North-West
River Petteril
4 water bodies in the Eden Catchment
Between Penrith and Carlisle
Setting: lowland rural
Key problem: poor trout numbers
Tidal Ribble
8 water bodies between in the Ribble Catchment
Between Preston and Lytham St Anne’s
Setting: mixed rural, urban and coastal
Key problems: poor coarse fish and water quality
Moston Brook (Sep 2012 – Mar 2013)
1 water body in the Irwell Catchment
North-east Manchester
Setting: urban
Key problems: no fish, bad water quality
Aim: to work alongside stakeholders
and use existing evidence
to reach consensus on measures.
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Moston Brook
Photos: Ann Bates, Moston Brook Project Officer,
Partnership Project - Oldham Council &
Manchester City Council
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Contents
1. Use of existing evidence with stakeholders
2. How this shared understanding empowered people to raise money and take action
3. How you can get started
RiverIrk
213. 7
Examples of Mapped Environment Agency Data
The downstream end (Silchester Drive to River Irk)
(Size of red circle reflects
annual volume of discharge)
- - - culvert
Discharge consents (stars)
red stars = sewage
Combined Sewer Overflows
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Phosphate vs. Flow
B
A
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 1/2 1
OrthophosphateConcentration(mg/lP)
Daily Average Flow (m3/s) (Agency Estimate) (Log2 Scale)
Variation of PO4 with Flow in Moston Brook at Wrigley Head
N Culvert 2011
N Culvert 2010
N Culvert 2009
S Culvert 2011
S Culvert 2010
S Culvert 2009
Alford St 2010
Alford St 2009
Alford St 2008
Plot of phosphate concentration against flow:
• A: deterioration with increased flows (evidence for storm sewage)
• B: deterioration with reduced flows (evidence for misconnections)
High flowsLow flows
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Mill Lane
AlfordStreeet(NthenS)
ChauncyLane
D/sHaleLane
U/sBroadway
D/sBroadway
LowerMemorialPark
WilliamsRoad
SilchesterDrive
PtcIrk
0
10
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
384000 385000 386000 387000 388000 389000 390000 391000 392000
Ammoniacal+NitrateNitrogenConcentration(mg/lN)
Easting
Downstream Changes in Moston Brook at Different Flows
7/2/2011 (0.362 m3/s)
16/12/2010 (0.167 m3/s)
7/9/2010 (0.107 m3/s)
25/6/2010 (0.046 m3/s)
19/09/1995 (0.038 m3/s)
Sample Points
Water Quality Ratios
A
UpstreamDownstream
B
Point B:
Observed ratio of
ammonia:phosphate
is typical of ratio in
sewage.
Point A:
Observed ratio of
ammonia:potassium
is typical of ratio in
landfill leachate.
Low conc
(good)
High conc
(bad)
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The Sewer Network
7. Silchester Dr to R Irk
Location of sewage entering
culvert , photographs from EA
culvert inspection team, 16 & 17
Aug 2005
- - - culvert
Point B
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Evidence for Misconnections
Diurnal Sewage Signal in Water Quality Logger (Point B)
Typical domestic
sewage signal
Mon WedFri
Sunday
(it rained
so signal
lost)
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Strength of Evidence Tables
Gathering all the evidence into one place for stakeholders to review
See handout for details
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2. How this shared understanding empowered people to
raise money and take action
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Main Causes of Failure
Main Causes Measures
Top Sewage from
CSOs, sewage
misconnections
Middle Landfill leachate,
sewage
misconnections
(side tributary)
Bottom Sewage
misconnections or
leaking sewers,
sewage from CSOs
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Main Causes of Failure and Selected Measures
Main Causes Measures
Top Sewage from
CSOs, sewage
misconnections
EA and UU act together to investigate any uncharted combined sewage overflows
(CSO) and wrong connections - easy ones now, harder ones next AMP cycle.
Middle Landfill leachate,
sewage
misconnections
(side tributary)
Hardman Fold: capping with suitable design, install leachate drain/interceptor &
enhanced toe drain. Surface water transfer from canal or surface drains to increase
flow in the brook, dilute & increase resilience to pollution.
Stop up and divert the drains at 2 sites; the Lancaster Club & Lower Memorial Park.
Wrong connection awareness campaigns either by post or email. Influence planners
and local authority to open up culverts.
Remove weir and replace with rock ramp for aeration.
Bottom Sewage
misconnections or
leaking sewers,
sewage from CSOs
Rationalisation of 6 CSOs into 2 in culvert between Kenyon Lane and Potters Lane.
EA to attend Category 3 pollution incidents that have been identified as a risk in
Moston Brook (for sewage).
UU and EA culvert team to develop a joint survey to identify known and unchartered
combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and wrong connections (with potentially some
water quality sampling).
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Some Actions Implemented Since March 2013
Top UU: Fitting existing pumping station with new filter system and
building a new underground tank, chamber and sewers (see leaflet, next slide).
Top UU: Alford Pumping Station scope of works has been completed.
Top Work on misconnections in Alford Street area.
Top Project Officer: Mill Lane project Phases 1 & 2: to address urban diffuse pollution from
surface water run-off from a car breakers yard, industrial units and former landfill sites.
Top Project Officer: Green infrastructure & community development - sustainable urban
drainage (SuDS) footpath trial scheme at Wrigley Head to address urban diffuse pollution
from surface water drainage from former landfill sites.
Middle One significant issue that was identified at the Evidence & Measures workshops, and
where progress has not been made, is the Hardman Fold landfill site. Hardman Fold has
changed hands and is now privately owned.
Bottom UU: Installed a new filtering system near Monsall St. & Queen's Rd.
Top &
Bottom
UU: Have doubled their efforts into investigating sewage misconnections in Moston
Brook.
Project Officer: Community awareness-raising project on WQ & sewage misconnections.
Work on sewage infrastructure, misconnections, SuDS, community awareness & development.
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Other Benefits & Funding Since March 2013
Other Environment Agency & Water Co projects – details not known ?
Other Local Authority projects:
• Clean City Award for 4 new Moston Brook entrances & environmental improvements. ~£94k
• Grant from Oldham Council for a new Moston Brook entrance. ~£17k
• Investment from Oldham Council to improve access at Wrigley Head ~£16k
• Successful acquisition by Lancashire Wildlife Trust of the remainder of the Moston
Fairway leading to:
• Investment by People’s Postcode Lottery into a Forest Schools Project.
• Viridor landfill tax grant for access improvements.
• Grant from Veolia for habitat improvements and 2-day per week funded post.
~£106k
• Manchester City Council have appointed consultants to treat non-waterside invasives.
Environment Agency have continued to treat waterside invasives.
• Annual programme of community events delivered including annual Moston Brook Fun
Day.
• Moston Brook Friends group committee meeting monthly.
• Funding applications submitted to Tesco & Asda community funds.
• Small grant received from FTPE & Forestry Commission for wildflower planting.
Moston Brook attracted up to 10 times the funding of similar catchments?
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Changes Since 2013: Ammonia
§ Ammonia was the biggest WQ problem.
§ Since 2013 it has improved so dramatically that Moston Brook may now be at
good status for ammonia.
2013Year
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Changes Since 2013: Dissolved Oxygen
§ At the same time dissolved oxygen levels have recovered.
2013Year
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Readily-Available Data: 1 or 2 Water Bodies
Dataset CaBA GIS Environment Agency Water Company
Water quality
monitoring
WFD status at
monitoring points
Original monitoring data
Pollution incidents Summaries per
water body
Detailed point data
Discharge consents Summaries per
water body
Detailed point data
Source apportionment Summaries for P
& N
More detail for P & N
Sewer network map Permission needed
Catchment to surface
water outfall
Permission needed
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Readily-Available Data: Many Water Bodies
CaBA GIS dataset
§ Data collated in the categories: biodiversity, water quality, flood risk and
urban deprivation
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More Information
Moston Brook Summary Report
On the internet, search for:
“Moston Brook Summary Report for the
Evidence and Measures Project”
Evidence & Measures
2-page Summary Notes
(handouts)
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Proposed Programme of Work Being Discussed
A chance to get involved
§ Collaborative with multiple partners;
§ Aiming to apply learning from Moston Brook to other areas in the Irwell.
1. Review the impact of the measures implemented on Moston Brook
a. Record measures implemented on Moston Brook.
b. Review their impact in terms of objectives agreed with stakeholders.
(For example: water quality, community engagement, improvements to deprived areas, flood risk,
biodiversity, recreation opportunities etc.)
c. Produce bulletin to show benefits.
2. Use readily-available CaBA datasets & learning from Moston Brook to
produce initial evidence base to agree actions in the Irwell
a. Meet with Irwell CaBA team and identify their key issues and locations.
b. Use the readily-available CaBA datasets to rapidly produce initial evidence against these
key issues. (Potential to tie-up with LIFE-IP project in the North-West.)
c. At a workshop, stakeholders review evidence and identify what areas and measures will
be prioritised.
d. Identify funding mechanisms for the agreed measures.
e. Carry out more detailed evaluation of the evidence if stakeholders require.
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Conclusions
Evidence Stakeholder Workshops
Shared Understanding
Agreement on What Needs Doing and Where
People Available to Get Things Done
(Moston Brook Project Officer, United Utilities)
Improvements On The Ground (and In The Water)
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Ratios of different water quality components
To identify discharges from landfill and sewage
At point A (Broadway to Williams Rd)
§ Blue diamonds show observed ratio of
ammonia + nitrate (N):potassium (K)
§ Red line shows average ratio in landfill.
At point B (Williams Rd to the Irk)
§ Blue diamonds show observed ratio of
ammonia:phosphate.
§ Red line shows average ratio in sewage.
Shows that A is predominantly a landfill
source and B predominantly a sewage
source.
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4
6
8
10
12
14
0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0 18.0
Increasein[AmmoniacalN+Nitrate-N](mg/lN)
Increase in Potassium (mg/l)
Changes in [NH4 + NO3] and K between Broadway and Williams Rd on Moston Brook
Williams Road - d/s Broadway
LandSim Landfill NH4:K Ratio
20%
10%
5%
1%
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0
IncreaseinAmmoniacalNitrogend/sofWilliamsRoad(mg/lN)
Increase in Orthophosphate d/s of Williams Road (mg/l P)
Changes in NH4 and PO4 between Williams Rd and the Irk on Moston Brook
to ptc R Irk
EA Guidance Sewage Ratio
% is %Sewage in Water
Ammonia+Nitrate
Potassium
Ammonia
Phosphate
240. ! Main objectives
! Improve water quality and habitat by working
efficiently together
! Community engagement and participation
! Raise awareness
! Mis-connections
! Pollution prevention
! Physical improvements