Cairn Beck Restoration 2018 /19 - Eden Rivers Trust
How
much do you know about our beck?
How long is it?
Where does it start
from? / Where does it flow to?
Who is responsible for it?
“Cairn
Beck is a small river in Cumbria which is a tributary of the River
Eden.
Cairn Beck is joined by Trout
Beck, shortly
before discharging into the River Eden near Little
Corby
and Warwick
Bridge. The
catchment area of Cairn Beck is16.2 km long and covers an area of
30.6 km2”
The beck rises from a boggy area of farm land in the lower fell sides between the hamlet of Newbiggin and village of Croglin; know as Cairnhead.
This
project kicked off in August 2018 with a scoping stage to identify
natural flood management (NFM) opportunities throughout the Cairn
Beck catchment funded by the Environment Agency (EA) as part of the
national Defra NFM project.
Initially,
the project involved scoping and landowner engagement to identify
suitable NFM options and the development and implementation of the
monitoring strategy to measure the effectiveness of these measures.
This included the installation of rain gauges, measuring devices and
time-lapse cameras.
During
the summer of 2019, we installed eight leaky dams on Newbiggin Beck
(see picture) and modified 15 leaky dams that we installed in 2016 in
order to improve their performance as NFM measures.
Most
recently we completed an ambitious river restoration project which
involved restoring a section of 200m straightened channel to
re-instate meanders, bars, riffles and pools along with secondary and
tertiary channels and ponds. This has created more storage of water
on the floodplain as well as slowing the flow of the water in the
channel.”
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