Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust

The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust was formed in 2004 with a

Association of Rivers Trusts^[3] which set up as a charity in 2001 to represent member trusts and assist them with conserving river catchments across England and Wales

.

Remit

The trust's remit is to improve the catchments of the four rivers of interest from the headwaters to the

drainage channels on peat soils and soil compaction of in-bye land from heavy machinery and livestock

.

There is some evidence to suggest that downstream

fertilisers more efficiently and so improve crop yields and reduce runoff to rivers and diffuse pollution. The Association of Rivers Trusts has assisted with this work through the PINPOINT project ^[5] which, through funding from the Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative,^[6]

has provided training in delivering farm advice.

Measures such as gill planting (planting woodlands on gill or clough uplands)[7] or blocking upland drainage channels have helped reduce impacts on rivers by slowing flow rates and decreasing sediment and nutrient loadings. The trust also works with farmers and uses modelling tools such as SCIMAP to identify the most risky locations of a river catchment in terms of diffuse pollution delivery.^[8] This helps targeting of resources and allows river restoration to occur in the most needed locations. Over the next few years work will continue on projects including Catchment Sensitive Farming Schemes and salmon restoration projects.

References

^ Yorkshire Dales National Park website
^ Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty website
^ Association of River Trusts
^ Yorkshire Dales River Trust website
^ Association of River Trusts
^ DEFRA
^ "Gill/Clough woodland management" (PDF). RSPB. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
^ SCIMAP

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