West Cumbria Rivers Trust

Presentation – March 2014 To Britain’s Energy Coast Business Cluster John Wilson

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett “We think that if you care about or love the Lake District, then quite simply you have to care about and love its water.”

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Who are We? Our Projects

•Environmental •Love Derwent Charity •Love Ellen •Established for 3 years •The Wild Rivers

•Experienced •Catchment Leads Board of Directors: for Environment Legal Agency Nuclear Water Environmental Tourism

•Five full-time employees – All experienced Project Officers

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Love Derwent- River Restoration Invasives Control Loweswater Care and others.

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent

Bassenthwaite – home to Vendace

“High Quality Water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan: high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, it is essential to health, recreation and economic growth.”

Edmund S. Muskie

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent – Tourism in Allerdale and Copeland worth £500 million per annum and employs 8,000 people. Buttermere

Home of Arctic Char

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent Crummock

Home to Ferox Trout and Arctic Char

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent Derwent, Grange in Borrowdale

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent Derwentwater Last home of the Vendace

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent Derwentwater

Queen of the English Lakes

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent River Derwent at Isel Special Area of Conservation: Atlantic Salmon, Otters, March Fritillary Butterflies, Multiple SSSIs.

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Loweswater

Love Derwent - Loweswater Care Programme – Community Led

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent – Loweswater Care Programme – Multiple partners Loweswater and innovation project.

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Derwent – Loweswater Care Programme – Making a difference

Loweswater, In the valley of three lakes

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Love Ellen – Principal Partner United Utilities Where Ellen meets the sea. We will be improving the water quality in the Ellen catchment together with Partners.

Maryport

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett The Wild Rivers – England’s Wildest:

Ehen/Ennerdale Ravenglass Irt/Wasdale Calder/Bleng Esk Mite Duddon

Three rivers meet; Esk, Irt and Mite

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett The Wild Rivers – England's Wildest

River Bleng The Atlantic Salmon –

“He comes in from the dark sway of the sea; from lonely reefs and wrecked ships hairy with weed. A wanderer of the ocean; returning to spawn in the river of his birth.”

Hugh Falkus, Eskdale

Wastwater supplies water of unique quality to Sellafield. Also home of Arctic Char and rock climbing!

England’s deepest lake.

West Cumbria, post industrial wasteland

www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett The Wild Rivers – Pearls in Peril – Special Area of conservation: Wild Atlantic Salmon Fresh Water Pearl Mussels Ennerdale

Ennerdale

“Our projects will, we hope, make a significant contribution to the environment but also to the local economy.” Tourism is worth £2.2 Billion per annum to Cumbria and employs 57,000 people. www.westcumbriariverstrust.org © Val Corbett Flooding Alleviation

Floods near Keswick

“We think that a combination of some de-drainage, re-establishment of wetlands and flood plain land (with appropriate compensation payments to farmers) and tree planting could significantly reduce flooding risk in our catchments …. ”

…. as well as being environmentally enhancing and encouraging bio-diversity”

•Individual/Friend £3 per month

•Corporate Friend £50 to £250 per annum

•Project Partner In addition to Project £1,000 (minimum) per Officers and scientists we annum also hope to appoint an Education Officer as well to •Principal Project Partner work in West Cumbria’s £10,000 (minimum) per schools. annum Help us make a difference.