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Wet Woodlands and the Water Framework Directive
Ben Bunting, South West River Basin Programme Manager
The Water Framework Directive The most substantial piece of EC
water legislation to date Designed to improve and integrate
the way water is managed throughout Europe
Looks at ecology, chemistry and physical condition
Drives us to work together to deliver integrated catchment and coastal management, to protect and improve the water environment over time
December 2008 - dRBMP
Public Consultation
How far, how fast?
Closes 22nd June
An Opportunity!An Opportunity!
Where are we now? WFD Classification
Replaces General Quality Assessment (GQA) has driven 20 years of water quality
improvement
WFD Raises the bar a more sophisticated assessment over 30 aspects of the environment are
included a wide range of impacts on biological
health: industry, diffuse pollution, urban estuaries, coastal waters, lakes and
rivers One out, all out – a much stricter system
Where are we now?
4%
18%
54%
24% High - 0%
Good - 24%
Moderate - 54%
Poor - 18%
Bad - 4%
Nutrients, fish communities Nutrients, fish communities
and some metalsand some metals
Outcomes from the draft planSW RBD: reduce phosphate: 1,200km improve fish: 750km of river Improve diatoms: 700km Invertebrates: 100km Reduced ammonia significant reductions in
abstraction
Based on ‘certain’ outcomes, and a ‘one out, all out’approach
We want to do moreWe want to do more
ADAS: Woodlands and the WFD Broadly Positive
River Management: Woodlands help protect and achieve Good Ecological Status (Temperature, pollution interception, morphology)
Floods: Models suggest suitable river & floodplain woodlands can attenuate downstream impacts
Waste Management: Sewage sludge, wastewater treatment
Climate Change: Clear synergies
All assuming the right trees are in the right place!
What’s in the draft plan? Some specific actions for Forestry
Commission: “Review the SW Regional
Woodland and Forestry Framework Implementation Plan to ensure that WFD priorities are reflected”
“Identify sites where planting will contribute to achieving WFD targets, and review grant schemes to encourage delivery”
Other related projects: WATER, RELU, Upstream Thinking, West Cornwall Woodlands, Devon Floodplain Woodlands…
Does this cover everything?
What should be in the final plan? Better links between the work
already in the plan and outcomes for the environment
More actions that we are confident will deliver WFD and associated benefits
Does this mean more on river and floodplain woodlands?
If so, what have we
missed?
…and what will it
deliver?
Summary The draft River Basin Plans are
here, they matter and we want to make them better
Forestry and floodplain & wet woodland projects are present in the plan – have we got it right?
We want to do more with your help
Tell us what you think!