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the effects of land use/management on local and
downstream flooding; (ii) collect the necessary
data for the SCaMP site and its downstreamcatch-
ments, as a general resource; and (iii) run a pre-
liminary analysis of the effect of SCaMP on local
and downstream flooding.
The multiscale monitoring network imple-
mented in the Hodder is shown in Figure 2.6.
English Nature Project E1T36-05-017 (Ewen
et al. 2006). The changes include woodland plant-
ing, blocking of moorland grips, changes in stock-
ing density, changes in heather burning policy,
and the creation of scrapes for wading birds, all
with the aimof preventing further deterioration of
rawwater quality (especially water colour produc-
tion in water abstracted for water supply) and
improving the ecological condition of Sites of
Special Scientific Interest.
The Environment Agency have funded a project
(SC060092) to enable the effects of the SCaMP
land use management changes on downstream
flooding to be monitored and assessed. The spe-
cific objectives are to: (i) create a database that
defines and stores the required data, which can be
used as a general template for the data require-
ments in future field/modelling programmes on
The Belford flood mitigation experiment
The Belford study (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iq/
download/BelfordBHSpaper.pdf) has been estab-
lished to provide a full operational assessment of
the extent to which flooding at local scale can be
mitigated to provide flood protection for a small
community. The town of Belford, Northumber-
land, has been subject to flooding for several years,
Fig. 2.6
Multiscale nested experiment in theHodder. EA, Environment Agency. (See the colour version of this figure in
Colour Plate section.)
