We've started building 25 new leaky dams at the #smithillsestate to help prevent flooding and improve environmental health with help from our partners at Env Agency NW, Community Forest Trust, City of Trees and The Mersey Forest #NationalLotteryHeritageFund. Find outmore below

@ChrisCWFC WoodlandTrust Some of yesterday mornings high flows seem to have been held. Hazel Phillips investigating through an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council internship with livunigeog. Funding from Env Agency NW and #HLF, with James Pownall building

Some great examples of partners #NaturalFloodManagement during The Flood Hub #NFM awareness week 🌧️🏞️. Where we make log jams, we've always made them living, with loads of lengths of willow being behind each structure. Why? Because dead softwood is decayed after 10 years!

It is taking shape thanks to the hard work of the James Pownall gang; with support from the #SmithillsEstate assistant site manager. Finally a glimpse of long-overdue sunshine ⛅️too!

Our thoughts are with all those affected by #StormChristoph. As we begin to think about the storms impact we may also need to look upstream, see how landscapes are managed and how water runs-off the land and what can be done to naturally slow and temporarily hold excess flow.