Slowing The Flow Together
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Slowing The Flow Together ; a chance to see how flood risk has been reduced in Calderdale using natural methods.
Slow the Flow and The National Trust have been working in partnership on an ambitious project at Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge and have now installed over 500 leaky dams and a kilometre of contour logs, in the woodland as part of the National Trust woodland plan.
The film is funded by Environment Agency and shows how Slow The Flow was established, how the Natural Flood Management process developed and the difference it has made to the local communities along the Calder Valley.
Sitting here in the desert of SE Arizona, this is so refreshing to watch!
Gosh! I used to fish there regularly 30 years ago. These schemes must benefit the rivers and their fish as well as the local population. A win-win surely. Thanks to all the volunteers and organisers. Les
This is a fantastic film. I have been showing this to my level2 and 3 conservation students. Thank you :-)
Delighted to hear it, thank you. If you need any direct contact for questions etc, do get in touch at secretary@slowtheflow.net
If you are local, do send them along to volunteer!
Hearing those water flow sound🥰🥰🥰so relaxing
I have recently diverted my down pipes from the roof of my house so they drain onto the garden which is covered in a membrane and gravel and I haven't seen any negative effects as yet.
Planet earth is a free house to us !given by the kindness of the universe, let’s value and treat it with love and respect! As we respect and take care of our houses! ❤
This all used to be done naturally by beavers. Has anybody thought of reintroducing the beavers back into this area?
A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
@@SlowTheFlow_UK Thank you. Great information to know.
You can work with beavers if they are damming somewhere they shouldn’t by building fence walls around culverts.
Massively inspirational!
Thank you, do check out our website for lots of inspirational content slowtheflow.net
Total beauty ❤️
WAW 😍💙😇
Please please let’s take care of our beautiful planet 🌎
Climate care change 🙏
Beaver and common muskrats are vital components when known to be Native to these environments, slow water's toil, supplement vegetative production, functioning, nutrient absorption, excess pollutants may be neutralized a bit, by such vital functioning aspects and lifestyles of the various Riparian Plant Diversity at these sites furthering gross primary production, yearly growth cycles, reproductive efforts, sustainability, appropriateness, and so on that gives rise to Healthy Ecosystems.
A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Can you not dig Swales?
Swales are amongst the interventions we advocate - there are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed.
HUGEL system is a old a very overlooked thing.
If the river is quite deeply cut in it's valley, has there been any thought on installing Beaver analog dams along the main river itself down the crag towards the villages??
A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
@@SlowTheFlow_UK I was referring to an analogue of the kind of dams that Beavers build (in absence of the animals themselves) fallen trees create the same analog by creating slower flows, say about half a metre high, every 100 metres or so, allowing the riparian area to absorb even more water.
If they reintroduce beavers to the area that would help enormously as they build little dams that slow the flow naturally rather than having to work so hard (the humans) cutting and laying timbers to achieve the same result. The beavers used to live in UK 400 years ago but were killed off due to hunting for their skins/fur. If we hadn't stupidly hunted them to extinction for their fur in UK, you wouldn't be in this position in the first place. Of course man made buildings and river banks chanelling water to run in straight lines has caused this problem of flooding in high rains but it can be reversed. Well done on the work achieved so far. Next step - bring in the beavers to manage it for you.
It is the Resources of living ecosystems that matter, Science is only trying to keep up with the Stability we have lost due to depredations of Logging, Roadbuilding, diking, and other Structural forms need to be Integrated to broader systems and the realities are about the quality, quantity, management of Uplands, flood plains, Revegetation plans and overall Functional Plant Series which are local, native and will facilitate all aspects of ecological diversity.
Are there anchors to the big logs? In another historic storm event it might fail, sending millions of gallons downstream at one go.
The very largest in-channel logs are anchored (and are built by contractors rather than volunteers). The big logs that sit in the small tributaries are anchored opportunistically to trees or boulders, or sometimes dug in if neither are available. We have not had any dams fail to date, but if they did, one of the benefits of NFM systems is that each component is withholding a relatively small volume of water, and failure of one dam would not result in failure of the whole system (so " sending millions of gallons downstream at one go" would not happen).
@@SlowTheFlow_UK fantastic response!
Surely beavers can provide all of these ecosystem benefits for a fraction of the cost?
A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Yeah, there are doing exactly what beavers do. And I think they are also right in the event of extreme rain in these high slope areas it can start a chain reaction of breaking beavers dam then a lot more water will go downstream.
Beaver slave labor?? 🦫
Clearly the use of the animals is a helpful part of the process but the little critters should not be doing it all by themselves, humans are going to need to do far more than has been, all over the place, all around the entire world, in every neighborhood. The sustainability and species future of all. A hardworking Beaver is a sweet notion but the environmental fixing definitely needs more human involvement, participation. 😁
@@muhammadmumraizmalik8919 A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Nice project and good for the community but it would it would be good to see beavers doing it naturally. The German government started introducing them
A regular topic - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Start including B.D.A's
British Dental Association?! Please illuminate us...
@@SlowTheFlow_UK it's slowing the flow of water and sinking it into the ground instead of letting it run off into the sea
@@brandonmusser3119 We advocate all interventions of this type - needs to be the right thing in the right place though, e.g. often in Calderdale, the ground conditions aren't suitable for infiltration (sinking into the ground). Do take a look at our website: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ and slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/ are good places to start for types of intervention.
p.s. still interested to know what the acronym actually stands for?
@@SlowTheFlow_UK Beaver Dam analogs anywhere at Beaver Dam could have been in the past you can put one there again that's how we slow and sink the water
Sorry I thought I had said what it was there's also another acronym Pals that just means post-assisted analogs
Needed a national plan....
Tarmac is a true killer and need to be avoid in hill sides as much as possible
There's porous tarmac now, with a storage area underneath - search UA-cam.
Yes tarmac block paved areas Slabbed areas ect all guilty you get the comments there is porous tarmac but it dont work it still sends too much by far into the sewer/stormdrain that CAUSES the rivers to flood i am with any group that says tax the hell out of paved areas that are not ESSENTIAL .
As above - we advocate urban sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) as well as rural measures. Take a look at slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/. We favour 'green' solutions that keep water on the surface, which have additional benefits over the type of system you describe (although there is certainly a place for it, especially where space is limited, as so often in Calderdale).
Great stuff 👍
For the urban areas, is the council aware of permeable tarmac with storage areas underneath ?
Hello, thank you - we absolutely advocate urban sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) as well as rural measures. Take a look at slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/. We favour 'green' solutions that keep water on the surface, which have additional benefits over the type of system you describe (although there is certainly a place for it, especially where space is limited, as so often in Calderdale). Slow The Flow is of the mind that everybody needs to be aware of such things, and taking action to slow the flow of flood water. i.e. Not just the Council, but of course yes, them too!
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#california
Many of these Species reproductive efforts include bulbs which can live submerged, floating or secured along the bottom of varying Plant Species very specialized to freshwater environments, are great indicators of water quality and are the bas of the pyramid of Life's Diversity indices of Plant Successional series, general age, Species, form of reproduction, life stages, and lifestyles do matter as do farms, gardens, pollinators, flowering times, variable seasons and creativity.
Interesting accents. Flueueds
Beavers?
A regular comment - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area at the moment. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/. We are trying to keep open minds and ears to the ground in case we can find a way to make it work one day, trustees had a great visit to see a beaver reintroduction project last year, you can read about it at slowtheflow.net/slow-the-flow-2023-what-another-incredible-year-we-have-had/
Really don't have a clue in this country do we. Many countries with less do so much more we are terrible at this its ok showing one side of the story.
The continuity, community's and coordinated efforts can mean the difference in Resources of the Commons, where Science is interceding with potential to structure, research, discuss with Local Experts or Tradespeople to sustain variable, concentrated efforts to refine such actions as We educate each other about Freshwater Ecology.
so carbon good for trees ( I have an idea ) Lets get to zero carbon .
Interesting approach. In case of a flash flood, those tree trunks (course woody debris) could cause serious damage.
Flash floods at the top of a hill ?
You do know they monitor this right?
The Logs are soaked with water and will be half burried withing years. They wont float anywhere. Also they help to prevent said flash floods.
Thank you for the concern - we place dams carefully and anchor them in. We are currently working on providing an ASDAN accredited course to teach people this skill. This is one of the reasons we are currently of the mind that the reintroduction of beavers is not appropriate in our area (see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/)
Flood channel, full bank channel should be monitored, Studied and respond to such flooding, slowing the like of this behavior means approaching the Flood plain, water use, conservation, appropriate Zoning to not build within the flood plain allows for this process. Woodlands and wetlands, riparian zones allow for survival of needed wetland Associates of Plants like willow, Salix, Alunus species, and other productive Associations of Plants as Typhus species, Sedges, Bulrushes of Native varieties will slow and receive and process nutrients for wetland Plant production which also absorb water which in lower water times is valuable for other Plants and animals.
Beavers would also slow the flow
A regular comment - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area at the moment. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/. We are trying to keep open minds and ears to the ground in case we can find a way to make it work one day, trustees had a great visit to see a beaver reintroduction project last year, you can read about it at slowtheflow.net/slow-the-flow-2023-what-another-incredible-year-we-have-had/
I have a 1 word solution to your problem: Beavers.
A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Maybe if England didn't have such poor statistics for tree planting and existing forest cover, the problem wouldn't be as bad?
Of course, we have to deal with the situation we are in. We're very keen on tree planting, it is one of our activities, and something that our partners in the 'Source' partnership do a lot of: slowtheflow.net/the-source/
There are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed.
get some beavers
A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
Plant trees. Bring back beavers. It's so easy /facepalm
A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
We're very keen on tree planting as well, it is one of our activities, and something that our partners in the 'Source' partnership do a lot of: slowtheflow.net/the-source/
Plant trees in a forest full of trees, and ask beavers to build their big dams on these steep slopes...ok professor 'Review'.
It'll require more than that.
Swales do a better job. Look swale in in internet. Bring beabers
Swales are amongst the interventions we advocate - there are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed. Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/
"...to have credibility with the authorities"
Backwards thinking.