Medway Action Plan

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Partners

To develop sustainable water management within the catchment

Reduce the impact of flooding
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status
Natural flood management at Bedgebury Pinetum to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Teise	Environment Agency	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Sissinghurst to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Beult	Environment Agency National Trust	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Pembury Woods to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Middle Medway	Environment Agency Hadlow Estate RSPB South East Water	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Reeds Farm to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Middle Medway	Environment Agency Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Capel to reduce flood risk at Capel and further downstream.	Middle Medway	Environment Agency Local Community Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Active	View
Natural flood management to slow the flow and reduce flood risk downstream	Beult	Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Birch Wood to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Beult	Environment Agency Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Completed	View
Natural flood management at Stonehall Farm to reduce flood risk downstream and offer additional benefits.	Beult	Environment Agency Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Completed	View
Develop a community flood warden network	Eden	Environment Agency	Proposed	View
Investigate NFM opportunities in the Eden	Eden	South East Rivers Trust	Planned	View
Promote local early warning flood systems	Eden	Environment Agency	Proposed	View
Engage with local Authorities to discourage developments on floodplain	Eden	Environment Agency	Planned	View

Improve and promote water efficiency
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
The Holistic Water for Horticulture project offers advice to farmers on nature-based solutions designed to increase businesses' resilience to water scarcity in the Medway: www.holisticwaterforhorticulture.org		Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Active	0	View

To improve water quality

Promoting strategies to tackle diffuse pollution through community engagement and practical projects
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Preventing Plastics Pollution (PPP) project aims to quantify plastic pollution, test methods for reducing plastic pollution and use lessons learnt to enable transformational change.	Lower Medway	Local Community	Planned	0	View

To have communities that enjoy, engage with and protect the river

Ensure the river is well-valued and understood by the local community
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Offer events and provide educational content on rivers to local people to increase their engagement with their local river and improve their awareness of the most important issues facing water management and the River Medway: www.formedway.org	Upper Medway	Local Community Medway Valley Countryside Partnership South East Rivers Trust	Active	0	View

To restore the river to a more naturally functioning watercourse

Address over abstraction
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Aim to create on-farm reservoir at Pikefish Farm to improve water sustainability and reduce summer abstraction from the river.	Teise	Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Proposed	0	View

Enhance river hydromorphology and biodiversity
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status
Investigate options to address negative impacts of Duddies Sluice.	Teise		Proposed	View
Investigate options to address negative impacts of Darman's Sluice.	Teise		Proposed	View
Assess options for habitat improvement at Crowbourne Backwater.	Teise	Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers	Proposed	View
Work up designs, secure permissions and deliver improvement works that address the Reasons for Not Achieving Good status on the Water Framework Directive for this waterbody.	Upper Medway	Environment Agency	Active	View
Investigate opportunities to de-culvert watercourses near Chiddingstone.	Eden	Environment Agency	Planned	View
Investigate fish passage throughout Eden catchment	Eden	Environment Agency Kent Wildlife Trust	Active	View

The river should support a mosaic of habitats with high biodiversity value

Improve condition and biodiversity of riparian areas
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Work up designs, secure permissions and deliver habitat improvement works	Teise	Environment Agency Kent High Weald Partnership	Active	0	View

Protect and enhance the habitats of the river corridor & floodplain
Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Trial natural capital mapping to target and scope interventions to improve catchment health.	Beult	Local Landowners/Farmers/Managers Southern Water	Active	0	View

Action	Sub catchment	Partners	Status	Activities
Remove blockage at bridge in South Godstone to prevent repeat flooding events	Eden	Highways Agency	Proposed	0	View

Catchment wide actions

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