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PROGRAM25SEPT 9:30 - 10:00 Registration

Registration and handout of the program

11:15 - 11:30 BreakFood and drinks

13:00 - 14:00 LunchFood and drinks

10:10 - 11:15 Plenary introduction program- Bart Geenen (WWF, NL) - Dam removal: State of play

- Chris Grzesiok (Environment Agency, UK) - Restoration of the river Tame in urban

Birmingham, 3 successes but lots of work still to do.

- Erin McCombs (American Rivers, USA) - Dam Removal: The Evolution of an American

Movement to Restore Rivers.

11:30 - 13:00 Plenary on Urban removals- Signing agreement - Environment Agency, Severn Rivers Trust with Dam Removal Europe

- Harriet Alvis (Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, UK) - Public perceptions of weirs - barriers to

barrier removal.

- Ed Shaw (Don Catchment Rivers Trust, UK) - Tackling the weirs of the Don Catchment.

- Maxime Potier and André Berne (Normandie Grands Migrateurs and Agence de

l’eau Seine Normandie, FR) -The comeback of Atlantic Salmon in the Orne river : result of

10 years of dam removal projects (focus on a case study)

- Plenary Discussion + Q&A

10:00 - 10:10 IntroductionTony Bostock (Severn Rivers Trust, UK) - Welcome & Introduction to 2nd Dam Removal

Conference.

14:55 - 15:10 Coff ee Break

14:00 - 14:55 Parallel sessions 1

15:10 - 16:05 Parallel sessions 2

Parallel session 1A: Technical

aspects

Daniel Brazier (Eden Rivers

Trust, UK) - Low Mill Weir - Part

of the Eden River Restoration

Strategy

Christian Hossli (Aqua Viva /

WWF Switzerland) “Fluss frei!”

- dam removal hits Switzerland.

Parallel session 1A Discussion

+ Q&A

Parallel session 2A: Technical

aspects

Joanne Barlow (Mott

Macdonald) - Pont Aran: Weir

removal in a town centre.

Kelly Quantrill (Durham

University, UK) Developing a

Risk Assessment Tool for Weir

Removal

Parallel session 2A Discussion

+ Q&A

Parallel session 1B: Social and Legal aspects

Chris Gardner (South East

Rivers Trust, UK) - Challenges

in delivering weir removal

projects for a Rivers Trust.

János Vargha (Freelance,

Hungary)

Human-river relationship in the

21th century.

-Parallel session 1B Discussion

+ Q&A

Parallel session 2B: Social and Legal aspects

Dan Johnson (Environment

Agency, UK) - Salmon in

the Stour - Headwaters to

Confl uence.

Alan Cullagh (Inland Fisheries

Ireland, IE) Legal and social

aspects of dam removal in an

Irish context.

Parallel session 2B Discussion

+ Q&A

Parallel session 1C: ecological

aspects

Martyn Lucas (Durham

University, UK) - The ecological

benefi ts of barrier removal:

evidence and debate.

Roberto Epple (ERN France,

Fonds Rivières sauvages)

Large Dam Removal in France -

a success.

Parallel session 1C Discussion

+ Q&A

Parallel session 2C: ecological

aspects

Kevin Nash (Environment

Agency, UK) - Geomorphological

changes post weir removal in

the Urban River Irwell.

Perikles Karageorgopoulos

(Environment Agency, UK)

Mending lowland rivers.

Changes in fi sh populations

post weir removal - Case studies

Parallel session 2C Discussion

+ Q&A

16:15 - 17:15 Plenary - Pao Fernandez (World Fish Migration Foundation, ESP) - AMBER project: a collaborative project for guidance

on barrier location, removal and mitigation in Europe.

- Pao Fernandez (World Fish Migration Foundation, ESP) - World Fish Migration Day 2018: Enjoy and share

about fi sh migration.

- Ulrich Eichelmann (River watch, AUT) - Weg Dammit! - A dam removal initiative for Alps and Balkan.

- Final conclusions

- Mike Morris/Simon Evans (Severn Rivers Trust /Wye & Usk Foundation, UK) - Intro to fi eld trip of day 2.

16:05 - 16:15 Break

17:15 - 18:30 Break

18:30 - 21:00 DinnerDinner and drinks

26SEPT 8:00 - 17:00 Field site visits

River Lugg

by Simon Cumings (EA) and Simon

Evans (WuF)

A visit to a series of weirs constructed

in the 1970s for fl ood defence

purposes where reductions are being

considered to restore this important

salmon spawning habitat.

River Teme (Powick) + River

Monnow (Kentchurch)

by Mike Morris/Pete Gough (NRW)

Paul Herickx (EA)

A visit to see one of the sites where

a removal is planned as part of one

of the largest catchment restoration

projects in Europe, but is proving

controversial with some and then

onto a successful removal undertaken

in 2011 to see how the habitat has

changed

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