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Great messages, conveyed brilliantly; SMNR, NFM, and the importance of restoration & geomorph as delivery mechanisms youtu.be/21YAP8RF_sw
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Oly Lowe
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Oly Lowe
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Fluvial Geomorph passionate about sustainable management of the environment. Views Are Mine, but pls borrow 😉 WQ + HydroMorph = 🐟 @olylowe.bsky.social 🦋
Wales, United Kingdom Katılım Eylül 2012
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@EnvAgencyMids @EnvAgency We need to stop calling these manmade drains "rivers".
Trees strengthen (natural) river banks, but they can be a threat to manmade (impounding) embankments such as these.
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We recently finished some important work at Chapel Hill in Lincolnshire to strengthen the river banks.
Leigh Edlin, Area Director for Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, tells us more👇
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"Crazy that innit" @BBCNews
Yes, its an "avulsion" which can occur when a high energy river is dredged. It's nature's (physics) way of dissipating excess energy caused by the shortening/straightening/steepening of a river and removing its mobile sediment
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📣📣Epic job alert: Specialist River Restoration Advisor £42k-£46k
Leading delivery of large scale, complex and/or sensitive river restoration projects across glorious Wales!! 🏴
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Sorry, timber log weirs are not natural nor do they replicate natural processes... they replicate ecosystem disconnecting & damaging weirs.
Leaky, brashy, beaver analogue, structures do work brilliantly though. Like these...
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#BrashIsBest
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Natural Flood Management is one of the many ways we reduce flood risk. It uses natural processes to slow or store water in a river basin, reducing flood risk downstream. This project in Surrey used barriers to store and slow water flow, protecting local homes and businesses.
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@EnvAgency Sorry, timber log weirs are not natural nor do they replicate natural processes... they replicate ecosystem disconnecting & damaging weirs.
Leaky, brashy, beaver analogue, structures do work brilliantly though. Like these...
x.com/i/status/16313…
#BrashIsBest
Oly Lowe@olylowe
More #NFM features installed on this watercourse... Lots of brash + placed naturally (messy) + wired together &/or upstream of bankside trees = very stable No timber logs or low flow notch = no excessive scour, but still good low flow, fish & sediment movement #BrashIsBest
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Natural Flood Management is one of the many ways we reduce flood risk.
It uses natural processes to slow or store water in a river basin, reducing flood risk downstream.
This project in Surrey used barriers to store and slow water flow, protecting local homes and businesses.
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@swaledalebirds_ @nationaltrust @BBCYorkshire @The_RRC More beaver analogues:
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To be clear; boulders historically removed should be put back in rivers to support natural geomorph processes and habitats. But walls have no place in a river & would likely need an impounded licence under the Water Resources Act.
Oly Lowe@olylowe
On #InternationalBeaverDay please note that even if you haven't yet got beavers in your area, you too can create wonderful #NFM analogue beaver features such as my brilliant colleagues built on the Afon Merin Details: #merin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">therrc.co.uk/2020-uk-river-…
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@swaledalebirds_ @nationaltrust @BBCYorkshire @The_RRC Yes please. Beaver analogues is what they are called.
Examples are in this thread
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River restorers often worry about in-river #NFM woody debris dams blocking, esp wrt fish passage. This @WaterNRW project site aggraded its bed from a 3ft deep incised channel, reconnected its floodplain & created this wonderful early stage wet woodland! @The_RRC @AfonyddCymru
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No! 🤦🏻
If it doesn't happen naturally it is NOT natural flood management! Please don't FURTHER physically modify our natural headwaters🙏
These barriers will disrupt natural sediment & ecological processes👎
@nationaltrust @BBCYorkshire @The_RRC
#BrashIsBest #ThinkLikeABeaver
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith🌳🧬@AncestralEnq
Traditional dry stone walling skills are being used in partnership between the National Trust & Yorkshire Water to build 3,500 dams in the South Pennines. 👇 BBC News - Dry stone wallers creating 'leaky dams' to reduce risk of flooding - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Provide funding for a nationwide, nature-rich river corridor network
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7270…
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@olylowe I'd suggest speaking to our Employer Helpline advisers directly on 0300 200 3200 for further clarification.
You can also find other ways to get in touch via the following website:
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Thanks,
Martin
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Good morning, we're here until 8pm to answer your general queries. 💬
Please don't post any personal details.
Need to check your tax code? ✅
Find it quickly and easily by downloading the HMRC app today. 📱
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@HMRCcustomers Thanks but I've seen that already. The situation outlined doesn't comply as it IS normally kept at employees’ homes
But as a "shared" vehicle the tax bill would be split between 2000 other employees!
Hence the query. Plus is it different if it's a car not a van?
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@olylowe Thanks for waiting.
Please see gov.uk/expenses-and-b… for information about company vans. This includes information about zero emission vans.
Martin
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@HMRCcustomers Feel free to ask any clarifying questions...there's only so much one can write in a Tweet!
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@olylowe Hi there,
I’ve passed this to our technical team for further advice. Once I receive a response I’ll get back to you.
Thanks,
Martin
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How do we monitor the success of our habitat restoration sites? 🐟
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Recruiting: Senior Geomorphologist post to work on the rivers in stunning North & Mid Wales on offer from @NatResWales
Please share naturalresources.wales/about-us/jobs-…
@BSG_Geomorph @EAGeomorphology @The_RRC @CIWEMRCG @CIWEM @theriverstrust @AfonyddCymru @ScottishEPA
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@PracBrownLtd just in case you're tracking them...does this win the prize for furthest overlanded water bottle from @The_RRC conference 2025?
Arrived in the Lofoten islands, Norway inside the artic circle, by motorbike from the UK yesterday.
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Brilliant video from @NatResWales
Why fish need boulders?/Pam mae angen clogwyni ar bysgod? Pedair Afon LIFE / Four Rivers for LIFE
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As you can see the theme for today is wood!!🪵
Here’s a video about our work on the River Tarell with @nationaltrust and @The_RRC
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A link to the press release can be seen in the comments
@NatResWales @LIFEprogramme
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Including a conviction after one man bulldozed a riverside woodland the size of half a football pitch
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
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