MIDDLE DON Don Network Catchment Partnership Workshop 13.02.14

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Water body Water body ID Who What are you What do you What would you doing now? plan to do? like to do? Don from to GB104027064242 Don Work with local angling Mill Dyke Consultative clubs to improve safe access for anglers. Help monitor fish populations by club catchment reports. Kearsley Brook GB104027064244 DCRT Re-establish a breeding population of brown trout in this unique habitat in the Don system. Diffuse pollution needs to be addressed first. Sheaf from source to River GB104027057750 SCC Crayfish ark site & Don monitoring GB104027057750 DCRT Improve connectivity bt encouraging others to remove or modify weirs. GB104027057750 SCC Culvert condition survey. Flood alleviation Deculvert opportunities. feasibility followed by Attenuation/treatment investment. associated with new Inner city unsealing as development. part of road infrastructure downgrading/renewal. GB104027057750 WTT Volunteer fish pass In-channel habitat Re-establish bed- clearance/maintenance. works. sediment transport

closer to natural rates/levels. Invasive plant species control. Identify ‘lateral connectivity’ opportunities. Re- naturalise channel modifications. GB104027057750 RSC Ad-hoc volunteer clean Establish a volunteer ups. group for the Sheaf doing regular/weekly maintenance and secure funding. Porter from source to River GB104027057760 SCC Crayfish ark site & Sheaf monitoring GB104027057760 DCRT Improve connectivity by encouraging others to remove or modify weirs. GB104027057760 SCC Culvert condition survey. Flood alleviation Deculvert opportunities. feasibility followed by Inner city bankside works. investment. GB104027057760 RSC Invasives treatment & Support volunteers to Support ‘friends’ to monitoring. Volunteer regularly monitor undertake regular clean ups with Aviva. invasives and feed into maintenance on Porter Membership of fledging YWT database. from Hunters Bar to city Friends of . Continue working to centre and run fun support ‘friends’ to get events/activities. Also established and grow. engage riparian landowners & businesses to support with money & people. Car Brook from source to GB104027057360 SCC SUDS on new Flood alleviation

River Don development. feasibility followed by investment including deculvert/renovation. Don from confl GB104027057412 DCRT Improve river to River Don works connectivity by installation of fish passage facilities. Potential removal of Steelbank weir. GB104027057412 SCC Lower Don Valley flood Reservoir storage on Lower protection including study, flood alleviation. Don. environmental works/fish WFD links re river flow pass at Sandersons weir. management. Long term river channel vis business improvement district. GB104027057412 RSC Wide range of projects: Deliver Lower Don Secure riparian riparian funded Valley B.I. D investment in regular maintenance work, maintenance contract. maintenance from weekly volunteer Support Blue Loop Corporation Street programme (Blue Loop Troop to establish Bridge upstream to Troop),maintenance for themselves as an on Loxley EA & SCC. independent group and Claywheels Lane on delivering weekly the Don. volunteering & events on 5 weirs walk stretch. Start new volunteer project for Central Riverside with flood wardens in Kelham & .

GB104027057412 Looking to engage College @ students on the Don at Hillsborough . GB104027057412 Sheffield Clean ups and other Kayak Club events eg Annual Raft Race GB104027057412 SPRITE Litter clean ups, Ranunculus planting, fish & inverts monitoring. Himalayan Balsam control. Don from River Don works GB104027057413 SCC Daylighting on Lower to River Don. Rother SWT Management works at Whole list of habitat Blackburn Meadows & management & green Centenary Riverside. infrastructure works Discussions with Eon across both sites. around management of the operational site & use of education centre. Potential for discussions with YW around increasing size of BMNR through taking on land. GB104027057413 RSC Done some volunteer Talk to eon about their Sort out a regular days for Eon with their riparian responsibilities. maintenance regime contractors. funded by riparian owners starting with YW and Eon. Greasbrough Dike from GB104027057420 source to River Don

Hooton Brook from source GB104027057430 DCRT Improve diffuse pollution to River Don issues to improve the long term sustainability of the fishery. from GB104027057440 DCRT De culvert where source to River Don possible. GB104027057440 RSC Community resilience Build on this to continue Link these volunteers project working with regular volunteering. into catchment wide NEETs on weekly river flood wardens. clean ups. Chaucer School & Remedi have been good partners in NEETs project. GB104027057440 SWT Identified as key green Need to develop action Identify needed works & wildlife corridor under our plan for this area to secure funding to Living Landscape project. identify necessary deliver. works. Don from River Rother to GB104027057452 DCRT Improve connectivity by River Dearne encouraging others to remove or modify weirs. GB104027057452 Don Work with local angling Help monitor fish Consultative clubs to improve safe populations by club access for anglers. catchment reports. GB104027057452 SWT Rivers Funding in place to do Deliver works over next Project, working at don variety of works 3 years. Island, Fitzwilliam Canal, including creation of Bowbridge & Kilhnhurst grazing marsh, otter Ings. holts, wet grassland creation, work for water voles, woodland

management & invasive species control. GB104027057452 RSC Knotweed treatment Work with them to Secure riparian programme over 3 years secure further funding. investment in regular with Kilnhurst Anglers. maintenance. Gain a better understanding of the picture re regular maintenance & who is doing what from Rotherham to Sprotbrough.

Other Notes

Forestry Commission Working with private woodland owners to enhance natural processes in a manner that is complementary to water attenuation/diffuse pollution. Reforestation of upland areas. Deal with invasive species.

Sheffield City Council Management of Sheffield Records Centre. Geological surveys region wide eg 261 local wildlife sites. Regulation of land drainage consents, Flood and Water Act, from ecological perspective. Planning applications, SUDS scheme recommendations & design. Link with Universities for research/analysis. Creation of 20 new ponds across Shefffield with Froglife Partner (in progress 2013/14). SUDS now and in future. SUDS approval body establishment for all new development in Sheffield & Rotherham. SUDS refrofit to reduce point source as part of other investment.

RSC Whole Don catchment, Riverlution River Friends Network sharing news & opportunites. Would like to build network of organisations & membership to support community action catchment wide. Flood wardens : want to support & grow existing network to undertake regular channel maintenance to reduce flood risk and strengthen social networks between individuals & local groups.

WTT Identify & deliver increased lateral connectivity (flood plain/back water) to main channel ( flood storage and refugia for aquatic fauna). Improve management of surface runoff via green – infrastructure, improved agricultural land management, control inputs to surface water drains. Remove, where possible, impounding structures (partially or completely) to re establish geomorphological processes, promote passive re establishment of riparian habitat. Increase riparian woodland. Increase longitudinal habitat connectivity for aquatic & terrestrial fauna using the river corridor (s). Indentify opportunities to stabilise ‘structure’ within channels (including large and coarse woody debris). Move from ‘short sharp shock’ blanket riparian vegetation management to planned rotational management that promotes staggered age structures of canopy within managed corridors.