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Broad Sheet February 2020 free newsletter FEB 2020 No. 38 BROAD SHEET Photo by James Bass Navigation and water ecology The Authority’s programme of in Hickling Broad Environment Officers and Rangers water plant management helps identify cutting locations by working •Wensum and Yare – New Mills to maintain a balance between with rowers, hire-boaters, sailors (head of navigation) downstream to the requirements of boaters for and partner organisations including Thorpe St Andrew navigable channels and maintaining Natural England. diverse habitats for wildlife. Plant removal from the River Cutting locations vary depending on Wensum in Norwich city centre has Plant cutting in the main rivers and where plants grow during the spring resulted in significant visual reduction marked channels through the open and summer months, and ongoing in plant growth. Rangers tell us that broads typically starts in April and monitoring of the local environmental water clarity through the city has runs through to October, after which conditions necessary for aquatic life. been very good over the past few plants will die down naturally. years. Officers will also monitor changes Last year, plant cutting took place at in temperature and oxygen levels in The Authority has two weed cutting the following locations: the water and consider where rare vessels. Each has a set of cutting and protected species of plants or •Bure – Coltishall Lock (head of knives attached to a conveyor belt, populations of fish occur. navigation) down to Wroxham which cut the plants below the water surface and collects the cut material Cutting must leave a sufficient •Ant – Tyler’s Cut to downstream of as the vessel moves through the amount of vegetation under the Wayford Bridge water. Cut plants are usually placed water for aquatic life, to hold the •Upper Thurne – Somerton Dyke in low heaps on the bankside, where sediment together and provide food down to Martham Ferry; Waxham they quickly dry out. for wintering birds. Cut; Catfield Dyke; marked channel Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Road, Norwich NR1 1RY | 01603 610734 | [email protected] | www.broads-authority.gov.uk 2 Photo by Julian Claxton Navigation improvements 2020 A new work programme for to rise by 1.8%. This will also offset pence to fund the reduced increase 2020/21 will be funded by the loss of income from a reduction for unpowered, hybrid and electric increases in tolls of 1% for of weekly-hired motor cruisers. vessels. unpowered, hybrid and electric- A further 1% increase will raise Examples of the increased charges powered vessels and of 2.9% for £30,000 necessary to construct a are as follows: diesel and petrol-powered vessels. new free 24-hour mooring site at Private sailing craft Last year, boat owners’ tolls Peto’s Marsh (Oulton Broad). Due to Small private sailing craft (5m2 and increased by a total of 2.6% in open this summer, these moorings under) will pay £42.70 for the year order to maintain the existing will provide access to a brand new – an increase of £0.40. level of Broads Authority services Suffolk Wildlife Trust visitor centre (equating to 2.1%) and to fund the at Carlton Marshes and to the Larger sailing craft (11m2) will pay installation of new electric charging long-distance footpath, the Angles £93.94 for the year – an increase points at Acle Bridge moorings (an Way. With this addition, the overall of £0.88. additional 0.5%), which are due to be increase in tolls required is 2.8%. Private motorised sailing craft refurbished in time for Easter. However, in recognition of the Motorised sailing craft (11m2) will climate emergency and the future In addition to patrolling and regular pay £113.74 – an increase of £3.19. maintenance activities, this year’s sustainability of Broads’ vessels, increase will fund the Authority’s Authority members decided to Private motor craft extensive dredging programme (see raise tolls for diesel and petrol- Small private motor boat (5m2 and page 3) and refurbishment of the powered vessels by an additional under) will pay £69.90 for the year – following mooring sites: Hardley 0.1% to 2.9% so that unpowered, an increase of £1.95. hybrid and electric vessels could be Cross, How Hill, St Benet’s, Dilham Larger private motor boat (11m2) and Commissioners Cut. subject to a smaller increase of 1%. Incentivising lower-emissions vessels will pay £153.78 for the year – an This year, in order to meet its is considered an important signal for increase of £4.29. navigation responsibilities, the future of boating on the Broads. Large private motor boat (38m2) will maintenance work and annual In reality this means that a large pay £531.24 for the year inflationary pressures upon all private motor boat (38m2) will pay an – an increase of £14.82. outgoing expenditure, charges need additional increased toll of around 50 3 What’s on the web For information on tolls, bridge heights, boating and other Broads Authority news: www.broads-authority.gov.uk For event information, and to inspire your visit to the National Park: www.VisitTheBroads.co.uk Sign up to receive your monthly e-newsletter Broads Briefing: www.broads-authority.gov.uk/ newsletter You can also follow us on Twitter, Dredging programme Facebook and Instagram. In addition to the CANAPE work at Hickling, the Broads Authority’s Construction, Maintenance and Environment team has been busy this year dredging throughout the Broads. River Waveney: Works at River Ant. Completion is expected Beccles, downstream to Stanley in April 2020. Carrs began in April and were Future dredging works completed in summer 2019. Sediment was placed on the Oulton Broad: 20,000 m3 will be southern bank to provide material removed from Oulton Broad over Cleaning up for Environment Agency flood- a 3-year period, commencing in At the end of October 2019, bank strengthening. The project summer 2020. Sediment will be volunteers and staff from the removed shoals from the river used to create 1 hectare wetland at Broads Authority and SEA LIFE bends and improved the navigable the northern tip of Peto’s Marsh at Great Yarmouth partnered up for channel. the Suffolk Wildlife Trust Carlton an end-of-season litter pick to clear Marshes reserve. Tyler’s Cut: 3,000 cubic metres up the area around Breydon Water, (m3) of sediment were removed Bure: Following works to remove near Great Yarmouth. from the upstream end of Tyler’s 4,000 m3 from the lower Bure at Many dedicated helpers braved Cut between November and Acle in summer 2019, the dredging the wind and rain to take part in the December 2019. The Authority crew is scheduled to return to the event, which covered nearly a mile of worked in partnership and shared area in April 2020 to remove an shoreline along the edge of Breydon resources with Dilham Marina. additional 2,000 m3. Water and the Herbert Barnes Park. Waxham Cut: The first phase of River Yare: From Bishop Bridge A staggering 25 bin bags of rubbish, 3 removing 6,000 m from Horsey to Thorpe Eye will be dredged in eight shopping trollies, two deck Mouth to Brograve Mill began in 2020, removing approximately chairs, multiple car tyres, a parasol November and was completed 6,000 m3. and even an old motorbike frame at the end of December 2019. River Chet: The Authority will be were retrieved from the landscape Sediment has been placed to the dredging approximately 6,000 m3 and disposed of throughout the day. east of the cut. The upstream from Loddon to Chet Mouth from section of the Cut will be dredged While successful, the event September 2020. in autumn/winter 2020. highlighted the negative impact that Finally, the Authority will be fly-tipping and irresponsible littering Fleet Dyke: December 2019 saw returning to Hickling Broad in has on an area. The partnership is a return to South Walsham Broad winter 2020 to complete the final planning to start a regular litter pick to continue dredging operations. phase of the CANAPE project. at the beginning and end of each Dredged material is being placed season. Head to the Broads Authority on the bank at Horning Hall on the website and social media for future updates. 4 Improving water level prediction Monica Pichler is a PhD student Monica has been using a water- in Marine Microbiology who level logger to record water levels has been on an internship in the between high and low tides on the National Park from the University River Bure. Using this alongside of East Anglia. data collected by the Environment Agency, she has developed Over the last three months she computer algorithms to extract the has been collecting and analysing relevant tidal data. river-level data in order to help the Authority update and improve its This internship was supported by understanding of average water the UK Research and Innovation levels across the Broads. This – Biotechnology and Biological will assist with setting dredging Sciences Research Council (UKRI- requirements and predictions of BBSRC) Norwich Research Park flooding at 24-hour moorings. Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership. Progress at Acle Photos by Julian Claxton In August 2017 the Broads toilet block has been re-opened for Works are currently underway to Authority purchased land at Acle public use. further improve the piling and to Bridge to secure the mooring install a number of new electric The Authority also welcomed the new location and additional facilities for charging points on-site. These works Dunes River Café into the existing Broads users. are expected to be completed by the thatched building during early beginning of the 2020 season, when Following refurbishment works there 2019.
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