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Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Management Plan Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Management Plan 2019 1 Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Management Plan Written on behalf of the Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership 2 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this document This document provides the baseline to take forward the work of the Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership. It describes the Lower Trent & Erewash catchment and the issues that need to be tackled. Wherever available, a data and evidence approach has been used to support the areas and project identified for future development. The summary tables (Section 4.2) show the multiple benefits for each project against the Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership goals. Annex 3 contains the specifications for each project including the current status of the project; the lead organisation and next steps required to make it happen. 1.2 The Catchment Based Approach Back in 2012 Defra launched the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA). The Catchment Based Approach encourages organisations to manage land and water in a balanced way, by identifying the pressures on the water environment, by working together to agree common objective and by implementing solutions. A key principle is encouraging organisations to work in partnership and to deliver a range of benefits through a single initiative. 1.3 River Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment The catchment of the Lower Trent and Erewash is a very large sub catchment covering an area of approximately 2045km2, extending from the River Dove confluence with the River Trent south west of the city of Derby and finishing at Alkborough Flats where the Trent flows into the Humber Estuary at Trent Falls. Within this area the River Trent is 174 km long with its main tributaries including the rivers Derwent, Soar, Erewash, Leen, Greet, Devon, Idle, Torne and Eau and the Dover Beck. Nottinghamshire is its principal county, with parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire incorporated. The catchment is a very long one touching a number of counties and to better service its needs the south west corner between its confluences with the Rivers Dove and Derwent is being managed by the Derwent Catchment Partnership. This plan will therefore cover the catchment immediately downstream of its confluence with the Derwent to the Humber Estuary. Nottingham is the principal urban area within its catchment with other major settlements being Ilkeston, Newark, Gainsborough and Scunthorpe. The catchment contains a variety of landscapes, predominantly the Trent and Belvoir Vales but also includes the Humberhead Levels, the Northern Lincolnshire Edge and Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Wolds. The bedrock geology of Triassic and 3 Jurassic mudstones has given rise to fertile, clayey soils across much of the area, while extensive deposits of alluvium and sand and gravel have given rise to a wider variety of soils, especially in the flood plains. The dominant land use across the catchment is rural, mostly arable production with a small portion in pasture. Diffuse nutrient pollution (phosphate) from agricultural run-off is considered to be a major contributing factor to the overall WFD status of the catchment. Other key issues causing water quality problems come from overflow from sewage works, surface water run-off from quarry workings and the road network. There are also some communities at risk of flooding within the catchment. Before CaBA there were already many projects ongoing across the Lower Trent that delivered benefits for the water environment. However, few of them looked at the catchment as a whole. The Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership has brought many well established organisations together to discuss their work and future aspirations at the catchment scale. The work reinforces the strength of some of the existing projects and allows the partners to look more widely at opportunities to work with partners to bring about benefits that may not be achievable by working alone. 4 Figure 1 Map of the Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment 5 2 The Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership The Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership has been developed in response to the Defra Catchment Based Approach policy using funding by Defra and the EA. A range of organisations have been meeting to look at the options across the Lower Trent & Erewash since the start of 2014. The Lower Trent & Erewash catchment partnership has a wide and active membership. The Catchment Based Approach has brought a catchment scale focus to the members recognising the wider benefits that can be achieved by a coordinated partnership. The organisations that attend the meetings are listed below: Ashfield District Council Canal and River Trust Broxtowe Borough Council Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Derbyshire County Council Environment Agency Forestry Commission Friends of Toton Fields Gedling Borough Council Groundwork Nottingham Keep Britain Tidy (via WatersideCare) Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Nottingham City Council Nottinghamshire County Council Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust National Farmers Union Natural England North Lincolnshire County Council Nottingham Trent University RSPB Rushcliffe Borough Council Severn Trent Water Southwell Flood Forum Trent Rivers Trust (catchment host) Trent Valley IDB U3A University of Lincoln 6 2.1 Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Vision The Lower Trent & Erewash catchment partnership has an agreed vision for the long term on the Lower Trent & Erewash. Vision for the Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership "A Lower Trent & Erewash catchment that has a healthy, functioning water environment including rivers, lakes and groundwater”. 2.2 Lower Trent & Erewash Catchment Partnership Objectives Objective Long term objectives Biodiversity and Natural There is a rich and diverse collection of habitats and Processes species within the catchment rivers and their floodplains. Areas of high conservation value are in good condition and are connected by wildlife corridors. Fish can move freely throughout the catchment with ample spawning and nursery areas. Flood Risk Management Rain water is stored and managed to reduce the risk of flooding through the use of urban and rural sustainable drainage solutions wherever possible. Properties and livelihoods are not impacted by flood risk and are resilient to future climate change. Floodplains are managed to store flood water as well as other local benefits. Opportunities for Natural Flood Management (NFM) schemes are explored and implemented where possible. Community Involvement There is a high level of public understanding of the and Recreation importance of rivers and floodplains to provide places for people and wildlife. Communities are involved with a local river project. There is a range of recreation and accessible sites along the river and throughout the catchment. Water quality Water quality from point and diffuse sources is improved. There is a raised awareness of pollution risk from residential, commercial, rural and urban sources. Addressing issues in high Our priority areas benefit from focused attention to help priority areas within the them achieve relevant catchment objectives. catchment Partners supporting each other and working together in our priority areas to maximise achievements. 7 2.3 Our Priority Areas The Lower Trent & Erewash catchment is a very large and long catchment with major urban communities separated by long distances e.g. Nottingham near the south of the catchment is over 70 miles from Scunthorpe in the North. Rural communities are similarly spread and so lack a sense of shared ownership and engagement over the catchment as a whole. The use of priority areas or hubs better enables the engagement of partners as well as local communities to work together to improve the water quality. Four priority areas have been identified in the catchment: Trent Valley (Trent Gateway project area) Erewash and Leen Dover Beck and Greet Bottesford Beck and Eau From these areas 2 Hubs have been created that allow the partnership to work together to help achieve the catchments objectives. These Hubs are the Erewash and Leen Hub and the Rural Hub which includes the Trent Valley and Dover Beck and Greet priority areas. The overall Catchment Partnership is overseen by a steering group formed from Trent Gateway Project partners. The Trent Gateway project is a large landscape scale project across the catchment (Figure 3) which brings together heritage, access and recreation, education and environmental sectors to deliver coordinated benefits. The Trent Gateway project will restore the River Trent to a thriving green corridor, focussing on enabling fish passage to over 400km of river. Through working in partnership, the project will also deliver a range of recreational and economic benefits by linking the people to the social history of the area and the role the Trent has played in shaping the communities along its route More information on the project can be found at: https://www.trentriverstrust.org/lower-trent-and-erewash/trent-gateway/lower-trent- and-erewash-trent-gateway/ Partners currently have projects and/or potential projects in the Hubs and this provides a core of activity on which to build. Section 3 below provides further evidence of the issues in the Hubs that the partnership could work together to address. 8 Figure 2 Map of the Hubs 9 Figure 3 Map of the Trent Gateway project area 10 3 Data and evidence 3.1 Nationally consistent evidence base CaBA data package for Lower Trent & Erewash catchment: https://catchmentbasedapproach.org/learn/national-evidence-desktop-caba-gis-data- package/ The 'CaBA Data & GIS User Guide' explains which layers are available, what they mean and how they can be used. There are over 100 data layers available for this catchment which identify the spatial pattern of opportunities; issues, characteristics and the possible sources of the issues. This weight of evidence is being improved by collecting local datasets and working with local organisations in the catchment. This data coupled with 'Local Evidence' and 'Priority Places' below provide the weight of evidence required to deliver projects which will benefit the lives of people and wildlife living in this the catchment.
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