Scientific monitoring suggests leaky dams are a success at Hardcastle Crags
By Stuart Bradshaw BSc(Hons) MSc DIC CEng MIStructE The Hardcastle Crags Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions suggest a successful test … Read more
Case Studies
Old Slack Farm – Natural Flood Management Project
The topography and geology of the Calder Valley renders it susceptible to flooding, compacted subsoils overlying impermeable clay soils result … Read more
Hardcastle Crags SuDS Car Park
Upgrade of existing car park to incorporate Sustainable Drainage principle at National Trust site, Hebden Bridge. Works completed Spring 2020 … Read more
Shoebroad Dam Todmorden
The topography and geology of the Calder Valley renders it susceptible to flooding, compacted subsoils overlying impermeable clays soils result in … Read more
Birks Court Case Study
What? 6 new bungalows Where? Walsden, Todmorden When Completed March 2019 Design and implementation For the construction of the access … Read more
Urban Pond
We created a wildlife pond in a shady and rocky area of our garden May 2020. We live in a … Read more
Log store modular green roof using square guttering
What?: Converting the ugly roof of a log store into a green roof. Where?: Terraced house When?: 29/05/20 Design and … Read more
Urban SuDS: Restoring a front garden
What?: Cleared and terraced the steep slope of a large weedy front garden to make it a usable space, using … Read more
Back Garden Redesign
Our back garden in Mytholmroyd has heavy clay soil that was causing standing water after heavy rainfall. To solve this … Read more
Economics of Attenuation Ponds
The Economics of Upper Catchment Small Scale Attenuation Ponds versus A Capital Intensive Flood Alleviation Scheme Since the Boxing … Read more