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tchmentased pproach Partnerships for Action

Helping Ourselves: Support from the CaBA partnership

CaBA support team

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Na:onal CaBA Support Group

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•  Terms of Reference: To champion, empower & support the CaBA.

•  Steer R & D: Steer the

investment of Defra funds

•  Secretariat: Liaison with Catchment groups – convey issues (barriers, constraints) to the National CaBA Support Group

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•  Start-up Conferences: Overview of CaBA, Key learning, Resources

•  Helpdesk & Information •  CaBA Workshops:

Technical aspects of Integrated Catchment Management

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www.catchmentbasedapproach.net

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Contact Us: (posts your question in the forum) Email us: [email protected]

Call us: 0300 302 0511

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Coming soon…. www.catchmentbasedapproach.org

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Support encompasses all

aspects of CaBA…..

….including interpreta8on of the WFD ‘language’

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Helping Ourselves: Mapping, data and GIS

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•  Need to move from catchment data & information to knowledge & wisdom

•  All stakeholders need access •  CaBA= engagement = opportunity to develop information sharing

Sharing Information for a Catchment Based Approach

Data

Informa:on

Knowledge

Wisdom

Understanding rela:onships

Understanding paEerns

Understanding principles

High P values in stream

P increases during high flows

Source = diffuse agricultural runoff

Engage farmers & deliver

interven<ons

The Need for Information

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Collaborative modelling

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How we will help you Our CaBA Vision: A Centre of Excellence

-‐  Skills development -‐  Network of expertise -‐  Infrastructure

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How we will help you • Show you what others are doing

• Data Inventory -‐  What is available -‐  Where you can get it -‐  What it is suitable for -‐  Costs & restrictions -‐  Alternatives

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How we will help you

• Guidance and frameworks

• Training -‐  Workshops -‐  Directory of training -‐  Online resources -‐  Bespoke training

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• Online mapping portal

• User requirements Analysis -‐  How do you want to

share information? -‐  User centred design -‐  Find common ground

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•  Find common ground

• Tricky balance: -‐  Local control and

creativity

-‐  Central infrastructure and tools

-‐  Don’t want 108 solutions

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Reporting fatigue

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Grant in Aid

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River Improvement Fund

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Catchment Restoration Fund

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Invasive Non-‐Native Species

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EA Measures NationalID RBD Sector Pressure WhatWillHappen SpatialType WhereItWillHappen WhereDescription WhereSummary LeadOrganisation Partners Investigation Natura2000 MeasureType TypeDesc Geographic AdditionalMeasure GroundWater River Lake Transitional

Coastal

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EU Restore River Wiki

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RRC Inventory

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CCM Hub.net

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UKWIR database

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UKWIR

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DTC Archive

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There has to be a better way…

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Develop data standards

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It won’t be easy…

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Restraint is needed…

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CABA LEARNING WORKSHOPS

Sharing technical knowledge and practical experience vertically and horizontally

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Challenge

•  There is no ‘off the shelf’ course to teach CaBA

•  Catchment management is cross-sector & the expertise to deliver is in the third sector

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Specialist technical expertise •  WFD classification •  Stakeholder engagement

techniques •  Diffuse pollution

identification & mitigation •  Geomorphology •  Monitoring / survey

techniques and citizen science

•  Sustainable Urban Drainage •  Etc…..

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Academic theory

Evidence base

CaBA pilots Longstanding

catchment projects

Technical experts

Specialist projects

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Academic specialists

WFD data, Category 3 reports

Thames21 Wandle RT

EA experts

Yellow fish projects

Example: SUDS

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Learning from each other… •  Three initial 2 day

workshops planned for February / March 2014 – North, Midlands, South

•  Parallel sessions on specialist areas of catchment management

•  Combine specialist knowledge with practical experience

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Helping Ourselves

•  Self help principles •  Get on the forum and

let us know what you need

•  Make sure we are aware of your particular expertise

•  Economies of scale

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Panel session: Rising to the challenge

Chair – Helen Perkins The Wildlife Trusts

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