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Stour CI Stour Delivery Group Meeting – Draft Notes for Comment 9Th October 2019 10.00 – 1.00Pm Members Stour CI Stour Delivery Group Meeting – Draft notes for comment 9th October 2019 10.00 – 1.00pm Langton Arms, High Street, Tarrant Monkton, DT11 8RX Members Stour CI Attended 9th October Fiona Bowles Chair of Stour CI X Natalie Poulter Catchment Coordinator X Jon Bass WCSRT X Kath Burt EA Dorset Catchment Co-ordinator (temporary) Apologies Doug Kite Natural England Apologies Emma Sumner Catchment Partnership X Ellie Eagan National Trust X Lydia O’Shea Wessex Water Apologies Saska McGrath Bournemouth Water Apologies Nicola Hopkins/Tim FWAG SW X Bowden Amanda Broom/Nicky Hoar DWT X Angus Menzies Riverfly Coordinator DWT X Ali Quinney Dorset Council X Louise Stratton NFU X TBC RSPB Aly Maxwell EA (corresponding) X pg. 1 Mark Holloway BCP Council Apologies Rhiannon Jones Litter Free Coast and Sea / DCF Apologies Tom Hicks Catchment Sensitive Farming Apologies Hilly Chittenden East Dorset Environment Partnership X Janice Blackwell CATCH community group Wincanton X Anthony Firth Fjordr Ltd X Alex Deacon Wessex Chalk Streams & Rivers Trust X James Cossins Farmer Representative X Guests: Liam Reynolds, WxW 1. Minutes of previous meeting Actions arising from the previous meeting Who Action Progress All Circulate contact details for Andrew Norris, Forestry England for Complete involvement in the Forest Design Plan for East Dorset Woodlands- [email protected] SMc To put Andrew Norris, Forestry England, and the catchment Chase partnership in touch with the Southwest Water Biodiversity Officer to link to the water co. tree planting target All Contact John Harvey, EA’s Sustainability and Plastics Team, Ongoing about getting in involved with the plastics and the circular economy project. [email protected] ES Add Jon Harvey (EA’s Plastic and Sustainability Team) to the In progress catchment partnership website under contacts. pg. 2 ASB Send on a summary and any other project information on the Complete Terra Flows project which is back up and running. This will be distributed with the minutes. ES Invite Richard Standerwick to future meeting in 2021 to report In progress on the microplastics investigation ES To contact relevant partners for projects to be added to the EA’s Complete Medium-Term Plan list for funding for 2019/2020 by the end of September. ES To upload a blank copy of the Project Proforma form to the In progress-must catchment partnership website and to redistribute to the group. be a workable PDF ES To circulate draft minutes and then label as final for distribution Complete and placing on the website for better distribution to other partners and colleagues. ES Upload agreed minutes from the previous 12 months on the Complete catchment partnership website- historic minutes to be archived for partners to request copies. ES Distribute the actions table from both delivery group meetings Complete quickly after the meeting with enough clarity to make sense of on their own. ES Provide link up for CATCH community group to John Harvey Complete (EA’s plastic and sustainability team) for their forthcoming September event. CP Chris Plenty (Wessex Water) to send programme update and In progress- see then further information on the River Rangers scheme when update below available to ES to be distributed to the partners. All Share Wessex Water’s ambition within your organisations to Ongoing have pollution incidents called into their Customer Services line (0345 600 4 600) ensuring that CS operator is aware that they should apply a 2 hour response time. ES share customer services details with Agriculture group Agenda ES To add catchment plan update on the GIS pipeline with Wessex In progress- Water and develop program meeting in November ES Provide links to the CaBA conference papers online Complete https://www.theriverstrust.org/events/the-catchment-based- approach-delivering-the-25-year-environment-plan/ A warm welcome to our new Catchment Partnership Coordinator, Natalie Poulter. Please note her email address: [email protected] and feel free to get in touch and to bring her up to date on all things partnership. pg. 3 Actions involving websites changes will be tackled at the next WxW media meeting in November. NP and ES will be attending. Thank you to all those who contributed projects to the Task and Finish group held in September to prioritise projects going forward for EA funding- WEIF. Action ES: Contact Ali Morgan, Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, to obtain the link to the latest River Trust conference presentations. Action All: To ensure Natalie is brought up to speed on the Stour catchment, send on any updates or information that may be relevant for her to take the role further. 2. Wessex Water Constructed Wetlands projects- Liam Reynolds Wessex Water has been involved in a number of Constructed Wetlands projects over the last AMP to improve the quality of water being discharged into watercourses and protecting abstraction sources. Durleigh wetland in West Somerset has recently been constructed with a series of 3 interlinked cells, each with a different objective and method of settling out contaminants such as phosphates. These wetlands aim to reduce the sediment and nutrient inputs to the reservoir, maintaining the volume and quality of the raw water supplied and thus limiting the amount of ferric dosing at the water treatment works. Several other schemes for point source treatment or site protection outside of the Stour catchment were described, some of which are partnered. WxW are also looking into possible Constructed Farm Wetlands, which are often on a much smaller scale but can have a huge impact on the local water course. These projects often look at in-ditch/swale management and sediment traps alongside classic wetland options. One project is looking at a possible constructed wetland at Stour Provost Farm, south of Gillingham which is a Dorset Council farm. This is in partnership with FWAG SW as part of the Stour Headwaters project. The wetland will improve the WQ of a ditch system draining a Dairy unit and subsequently improve the quality of the Key Brook. Both farm-only and farm-and-river treatment are being considered. Water sampling throughout the winter 19/20 and a study will be carried to investigate with trial pits whether an existing farm pond can be used. Delivery is hoped to start early 2020. Discussion: There seems to be high landowner engagement in the area, but more could be involved- can the partnership help with this? In order to establish wetlands, they still have to go through planning permission and the correct abstraction licences applied for. LiDAR data is available through the Historical Watercourse project which focused on the Stour- some data maybe relevant for future projects and useful to WxW. pg. 4 The maintenance of the wetlands: a maintenance plan is being pulled together but the wetlands can have a 20-30yr life span before they need large scale maintenance such as dredging. In the meantime, ongoing grounds maintenance would be costed out for 2 or 3 days a year for the woodland and grassland. Dorset Council have also been implementing biodiversity improvement measures at the farm including barn owl boxes. Regarding engagement, AM is keen to show the multiple benefits of constructed wetland projects and to not just focus on the reduction of P, which is a main driver of water companies. This could be included as part of a communications strategy when trying to engage with the wider audience. Liam offered to assist partners with similar projects. Action All: Any ongoing and future Stour catchment projects that can feed into, or avoid overlap, constructed wetland management scheme to contact Liam Reynolds, WxW. Action AF: Discuss with Liam Reynolds, WxW, about LIDAR data gathered through the Historical Watercourses project undertaken along the main channel of the Stour river and how this could be useful to the constructed wetlands project. Action AQ: Check existing data sets held by the Natural Environment Team at Dorset Council, in particular Great Crested Newts, to be feed into the constructed Wetlands project and to FWAG SW. Action ES: Write up an article on WxW Constructed Wetlands for the Winter newsletter. 3. Catchment Plan Update With Natalie now in place, it is a good opportunity to review and update the Stour catchment plan as previously agreed, with steer from partners. Discussion notes: Who uses the plan and what for? Useful tool to pitch to businesses for engaging them in improvement projects; to develop the ‘offer’ businesses may be interested in. Cross-Dorset and showing how adjustments to working methods could have a positive impact.- e.g. sourcing low-N barley for a brewery: currently out of Dorset but, with support from advisors, could be from within catchment & contribute to improvement aims. Farms- linked through catchment advisors Advisors & project managers- useful tool to help contextualise work: what is going on around my project? Reference for a variety of plans & strategies, including EA catchment plan, Local Plan consultation responses, planning applications (directing compensation etc). Provides opportunities for public engagement around attitudes to water, flooding etc. Influences and is influenced by behaviour change curve, political environment etc. Used to direct and group (if appropriate) applications for future funding for projects (acts as a ‘wish list’ of projects which would derive benefits for the catchment); also to justify funding bids- ‘this project is a strategic aspiration which has been identified
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