Slow The Flow Calderdale
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Hardcastle Crags volunteer days October 28, 2018 9:30 am - 1:00 pm 2-1 Midgehole Rd, Hebden Bridge HX7 7AL, UKSee more details
Park at the National Trust car park, 2-1 Midgehole Rd, Hebden Bridge HX7 7AL from around 0930-0945
Training, advice, guidance and support will be given to those joining for the first time!
Due to limited parking at Hardcastle Crags, we must try and limit the number of volunteer cars in the car parks at Hardcastle Crags. If possible, please could you help us help the National Trust with the limited parking by doing one of the following;
1. Can you Car Share with another volunteer
2. Park in Hebden and walk to Hardcastle Crags.<…
Projects
Hardcastle Crags – our most successful Project to date!
Hardcastle Crags, our local National Trust site, is the home of Slow The Flow’s most successful project on the ground to date, with 250+ woody leaky dams built, and counting! Since November 2016, our volunteers have been working with the incredible team of rangers and land managers at The National Trust, The Environment Agency, Calderdale Council, Nathan the working horse, and many others, to build leaky woody dams across streams with ...
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You Can Slow The Flow
Everybody living or working in the Calder Valley can make small changes to slow the flow of stormwater. Many small interventions, to slow run-off, could result in a significant amount of water being temporarily stored during storm events in our urban areas. This will help to reduce peak flows (see the detailed Storm Hydrograph) which, together ...
River Surveys
One of the tasks our volunteers undertook in 2016 was a detailed survey of the Calder Catchment tributaries. This surveyed the Hebden Water catchment including Hebden Water, Crimsworth Dene and the river through Nutclough woods. The picture below is of a section at Crimsworth Dene which is typical of the scenery and the beautiful landscape we ...
What our volunteers have achieved so far
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Leaky Dams
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Large Water Storage Areas
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Contour Placed Logs