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Blackbridge Brook and Monkton Mead River Restoration Scoping Report River Restoration Scoping Report for Blackbridge Brook and Monktonmead Brook Jonathan Cox July 2014 Jonathan Cox Associates 1 River Restoration Scoping Report for Blackbridge Brook and Monktonmead Brook 1 Contents 2 The character of Blackbridge Brook ................................................................................................. 3 3 Wildlife of the Blackbridge Brook .................................................................................................... 3 4 Issues facing the Blackbridge Brook ................................................................................................. 7 4.1 Water quality ..................................................................................................................................... 7 4.2 Water resources ................................................................................................................................ 7 4.3 Fish passage ....................................................................................................................................... 7 4.4 Water levels ....................................................................................................................................... 7 4.5 Land-use ............................................................................................................................................ 7 4.6 Public access and involvement .......................................................................................................... 7 5 Scope of works for the Blackbridge Brook ........................................................................................ 8 6 The character of Monktonmead Brook ............................................................................................ 9 6.1 Wildlife of the Monktonmead Brook............................................................................................... 11 7 Issues facing the Monktonmead Brook .......................................................................................... 15 7.1 Water quality ................................................................................................................................... 15 7.2 Diffuse pollution .............................................................................................................................. 15 7.3 Fish passage ..................................................................................................................................... 15 7.4 Land-use .......................................................................................................................................... 15 7.5 Flood risk ......................................................................................................................................... 16 7.6 Public access and involvement ........................................................................................................ 16 7.7 Habitat creation ............................................................................................................................... 16 7.8 Mitigation measures ........................................................................................................................ 16 8 Scope of works for the Monktonmead Brook ................................................................................. 17 Jonathan Cox Associates 2 2 The character of Blackbridge Brook The Blackbridge Brook flows north into the Solent through Wootton Mill Pond and the intertidal estuary of Wootton Creek. The upper reaches of the Brook consist of a number of small tributary streams that arise from the foot of the chalk downs and from small sand and gravel aquifers perched on the underlying Tertiary clays that dominate the catchment. A series of farms mark the location of the chalk springs at the head of catchment, the largest of these being at Combley Farm that feeds into Deadman’s Brook and Duxmore Farm that forms the Chillingwood Brook. Little information is available regarding the ecology of these small chalk stream spring fed sections at the headwaters of the Brook, which rapidly change character as the streams cross the Tertiary strata at the foot of the chalk downs. It is here that the Blackbridge Brook and its tributaries develop the character that dominates much of its catchment as the Brook flows through a landscape of wet meadows and extensive areas of ancient woodland. The complex of hedged fields, meadows and woodlands creates a landscape of high wildlife value. The Brook is essentially a woodland stream throughout most of its catchment. Even where it flows through the meadows it is lined with old hedgerows or belts of woodland so that there are few sections of the Brook that flow in the open. The three main tributaries of the Brook (Deadman’s Brook, Chillingwood Brook and Blackbridge Brook) meet near Havenstreet before flowing through Greatwood Copse at the head of Wootton Mill Pond. Here the Brook flows through an almost natural landscape with a flood plain that shows a complete transition from wet freshwater meadows, through brackish marshes to saltmarsh. These a flanked by valley sides clothed with further areas of ancient woodland forming low valley side bluffs and river cliffs. Wootton Mill Pond is marked at its northern end by Wootton Bridge and its tidal sluices. These are operated to regulate the flow of saltwater upstream into the Mill Pond at high tide and form a major constriction to the flow of freshwater into the fully estuarine environment of Wootton Creek. The outer reaches of Wootton Creek are lined with relict patches of saltmarsh and small shingle spits although these are heavily disturbed and fragmented by small scale marine industrial activity, urban developments and the ferry port at Fishbourne. The banks of the Creek support further fragments of sub- urbanised ancient semi-natural woodland. 3 Wildlife of the Blackbridge Brook For most of its length, the Blackbridge Brook is heavily shaded as it meanders through woodlands and along the line of old hedgerows. This, combined with its very variable flow regime, result in a stream that is largely devoid of aquatic vegetation and with an apparently impoverished aquatic invertebrate fauna. However, the wildlife value of the Blackbridge Brook lies with the habitat that it creates as it flows through the many ancient woodlands that dominate the stream’s flood plain. This is rich and diverse and includes a number of nationally uncommon and scarce species. For most of its length the Brook is cut into the underlying clay soils and flows over a flint gravel bed. It retains a natural meandering course with sequences of riffles and pools and frequent debris dams and woody debris that diversify the Brooks structure and adds habitat diversity. In places, the stream meanders in the woods can be so sharp that they almost create islands with the stream flowing around all sides. The stream side woodlands that have developed along the course the Blackbridge Brook and its tributaries are typically species rich. These are often flooded in the winter as spate flows break out of the stream channel and spread silt and nutrients across the woodland floor. The tree canopy is naturally dominated by a mix of ash and pedunculate oak with occasional alder and wych elm. The shrub layer is also species rich and dominated by hazel and field maple often with species such as spindle, privet and willow. The ground flora is particularly diverse and characteristic of the winter flooded woodland. In spring the wildly meandering stream course flows around small wooded ‘islands’ rich in wild flowers such as wood anemone, Jonathan Cox Associates 3 blue bell, primrose, wild daffodil, dog’s mercury, violets, lesser celendine, male fern and hart’s tongue fern. Uncommon woodland plants associated with these streamside woodlands include the green hellebore found on the banks of the Brook in Greatwood Copse and the nationally scarce thin-spiked wood sedge Carex strigosa which also grows in Greatwood Copse as well as several other ancient woods that border the Brook. Figure 1: Blackbridge Brook meandering through Kemphill Moor Copse with gravel bed and deeply cut spate flow channel. Where left undisturbed, these streamside woods include ancient trees supporting a diverse lichen flora growing on their trunks. For example, Greatwood Copse, part of Briddlesford Copses SAC, has a number of old oak and ash trees supporting uncommon lichens such the tree lungwort Lobaria pulmonaria and the nationally scarce Agonimia allobata, Bacidia delicata and Chaenothecopsis nigra . Although these lichens are often small and inconspicuous they are very valuable indicators of environmental quality being very sensitive to disturbance and pollution and are therefore found in only the most long established and unpolluted woods. Jonathan Cox Associates 4 Figure 2: The nationally scarce Thin-spiked wood sedge (left) is a feature of streamside woodlands along the Blackbridge Brook and natural pool and riffle sequences along the Deadmans Brook in Ramcroft Copse These undisturbed streamside woodlands are also important for many uncommon invertebrates including the nationally scarce Brown Snail Zenoiella subrufescens and a range of uncommon insects such as the Giant Lacewing Osmylus fulvicephalus. A feature of many of the small wooded streams that feed into the Brook is the Golden ringed dragonfly Corduligaster boltonii . This striking dragonfly can occasionally be seen feeding in the
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