Slowing The Flow Together 

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

Sitting here in the desert of SE Arizona, this is so refreshing to watch!

This is a fantastic film. I have been showing this to my level2 and 3 conservation students. Thank you :-)

Hearing those water flow sound🥰🥰🥰so relaxing

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?

Massively inspirational!

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.

Can you not dig Swales?

Total beauty ❤️

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??

Please please let’s take care of our beautiful planet 🌎 Climate care change 🙏

WAW 😍💙😇

Are there anchors to the big logs? In another historic storm event it might fail, sending millions of gallons downstream at one go.

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.

Great stuff 👍 For the urban areas, is the council aware of permeable tarmac with storage areas underneath ?

Surely beavers can provide all of these ecosystem benefits for a fraction of the cost?

HUGEL system is a old a very overlooked thing.

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

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.

Tarmac is a true killer and need to be avoid in hill sides as much as possible

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.

Needed a national plan....

#california

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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

Start including B.D.A's

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.

so carbon good for trees ( I have an idea ) Lets get to zero carbon .

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

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.

Interesting approach. In case of a flash flood, those tree trunks (course woody debris) could cause serious damage.

I have a 1 word solution to your problem: Beavers.

Maybe if England didn't have such poor statistics for tree planting and existing forest cover, the problem wouldn't be as bad?

get some beavers

Plant trees. Bring back beavers. It's so easy /facepalm

Swales do a better job. Look swale in in internet. Bring beabers

"...to have credibility with the authorities" Backwards thinking.

Beavers?