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!

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

2 жыл бұрын

Delighted to hear it, thank you. If you need any direct contact for questions etc, do get in touch at secretary@slowtheflow.net If you are local, do send them along to volunteer!

Hearing those water flow sound🥰🥰🥰so relaxing

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.

This all used to be done naturally by beavers. Has anybody thought of reintroducing the beavers back into this area?

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

@SusanA1056

Жыл бұрын

@@SlowTheFlow_UK Thank you. Great information to know.

@kennydon

Жыл бұрын

You can work with beavers if they are damming somewhere they shouldn’t by building fence walls around culverts.

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

Massively inspirational!

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, do check out our website for lots of inspirational content slowtheflow.net

Total beauty ❤️

WAW 😍💙😇

HUGEL system is a old a very overlooked thing.

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??

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

@attermire2109

Жыл бұрын

@@SlowTheFlow_UK I was referring to an analogue of the kind of dams that Beavers build (in absence of the animals themselves) fallen trees create the same analog by creating slower flows, say about half a metre high, every 100 metres or so, allowing the riparian area to absorb even more water.

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.

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

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.

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

11 ай бұрын

Hello, thank you - we absolutely advocate urban sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) as well as rural measures. Take a look at slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/. We favour 'green' solutions that keep water on the surface, which have additional benefits over the type of system you describe (although there is certainly a place for it, especially where space is limited, as so often in Calderdale). Slow The Flow is of the mind that everybody needs to be aware of such things, and taking action to slow the flow of flood water. i.e. Not just the Council, but of course yes, them too!

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

2 жыл бұрын

The very largest in-channel logs are anchored (and are built by contractors rather than volunteers). The big logs that sit in the small tributaries are anchored opportunistically to trees or boulders, or sometimes dug in if neither are available. We have not had any dams fail to date, but if they did, one of the benefits of NFM systems is that each component is withholding a relatively small volume of water, and failure of one dam would not result in failure of the whole system (so " sending millions of gallons downstream at one go" would not happen).

@iwanabana

2 жыл бұрын

@@SlowTheFlow_UK fantastic response!

#california

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular topic - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

Needed a national plan....

Start including B.D.A's

@SlowTheFlow_UK

2 жыл бұрын

British Dental Association?! Please illuminate us...

@brandonmusser3119

2 жыл бұрын

@@SlowTheFlow_UK it's slowing the flow of water and sinking it into the ground instead of letting it run off into the sea

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonmusser3119 We advocate all interventions of this type - needs to be the right thing in the right place though, e.g. often in Calderdale, the ground conditions aren't suitable for infiltration (sinking into the ground). Do take a look at our website: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ and slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/ are good places to start for types of intervention. p.s. still interested to know what the acronym actually stands for?

@brandonmusser3119

Жыл бұрын

@@SlowTheFlow_UK Beaver Dam analogs anywhere at Beaver Dam could have been in the past you can put one there again that's how we slow and sink the water

@brandonmusser3119

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I thought I had said what it was there's also another acronym Pals that just means post-assisted analogs

Can you not dig Swales?

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

Swales are amongst the interventions we advocate - there are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed.

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

@Daytona2

Жыл бұрын

There's porous tarmac now, with a storage area underneath - search KZread.

@petenikolic5244

Жыл бұрын

Yes tarmac block paved areas Slabbed areas ect all guilty you get the comments there is porous tarmac but it dont work it still sends too much by far into the sewer/stormdrain that CAUSES the rivers to flood i am with any group that says tax the hell out of paved areas that are not ESSENTIAL .

@SlowTheFlow_UK

11 ай бұрын

As above - we advocate urban sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) as well as rural measures. Take a look at slowtheflow.net/you-can-slow-the-flow/. We favour 'green' solutions that keep water on the surface, which have additional benefits over the type of system you describe (although there is certainly a place for it, especially where space is limited, as so often in Calderdale).

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.

🙋‍♀️💜🌟💕

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

3 жыл бұрын

A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

@muhammadmumraizmalik8919

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there are doing exactly what beavers do. And I think they are also right in the event of extreme rain in these high slope areas it can start a chain reaction of breaking beavers dam then a lot more water will go downstream.

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

Beaver slave labor?? 🦫 Clearly the use of the animals is a helpful part of the process but the little critters should not be doing it all by themselves, humans are going to need to do far more than has been, all over the place, all around the entire world, in every neighborhood. The sustainability and species future of all. A hardworking Beaver is a sweet notion but the environmental fixing definitely needs more human involvement, participation. 😁

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

@@muhammadmumraizmalik8919 A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

Interesting accents. Flueueds

Beavers?

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Ай бұрын

A regular comment - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area at the moment. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/. We are trying to keep open minds and ears to the ground in case we can find a way to make it work one day, trustees had a great visit to see a beaver reintroduction project last year, you can read about it at slowtheflow.net/slow-the-flow-2023-what-another-incredible-year-we-have-had/

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.

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.

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

@Bennie32831

Жыл бұрын

Flash floods at the top of a hill ?

@felle7522

Жыл бұрын

You do know they monitor this right?

@beerenmusli8220

Жыл бұрын

The Logs are soaked with water and will be half burried withing years. They wont float anywhere. Also they help to prevent said flash floods.

@SlowTheFlow_UK

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the concern - we place dams carefully and anchor them in. We are currently working on providing an ASDAN accredited course to teach people this skill. This is one of the reasons we are currently of the mind that the reintroduction of beavers is not appropriate in our area (see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/)

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.

Beavers would also slow the flow

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Ай бұрын

A regular comment - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area at the moment. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/. We are trying to keep open minds and ears to the ground in case we can find a way to make it work one day, trustees had a great visit to see a beaver reintroduction project last year, you can read about it at slowtheflow.net/slow-the-flow-2023-what-another-incredible-year-we-have-had/

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

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

get some beavers

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

A regular question- Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

Of course, we have to deal with the situation we are in. We're very keen on tree planting, it is one of our activities, and something that our partners in the 'Source' partnership do a lot of: slowtheflow.net/the-source/ There are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed.

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

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

Жыл бұрын

Swales are amongst the interventions we advocate - there are many nature-based tools in the #NFM and #SuDS toolkit! Take a look at our website for more: slowtheflow.net/introduction-to-natural-flood-management/ is a good page to start on with lots of ideas listed. Beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/

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

@SlowTheFlow_UK

2 жыл бұрын

A regular question - beavers are great, we're big advocates of 'real nature' doing its thing. But, their re-introduction would not be appropriate in our area. Please see slowtheflow.net/could-beavers-be-introduced-into-the-calder-valley-to-reduce-flood-risk/ We're very keen on tree planting as well, it is one of our activities, and something that our partners in the 'Source' partnership do a lot of: slowtheflow.net/the-source/

@danyoutube7491

2 жыл бұрын

Plant trees in a forest full of trees, and ask beavers to build their big dams on these steep slopes...ok professor 'Review'.

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

It'll require more than that.