Natural Flood Management in Practice

Ben Thorne, FWAG SW

Soil Water Storage

Grassland sub-soiling

Maize – 16,000 ha – 8% of farmed area

Using flow pathway mapping

Silt traps

Filter fence

Filter Soxx

Coir rolls

AfterBefore

Bunded ScrapeIntercepting flow pathway in valley

After

Bunded scrape to intercept flow pathway

Strategic planting

Floodplain scrapes

Before

Leaky Pond

After

During

Construct ditch to take run-off from road to pond

Construct footbridge over ditch

Construct ditch/swale to channel water into pond Bund constructed from site

soil

Area to be excavated to create pond Use soil arisings to form bund

Not to scaleIndicative view only

In ditch features