The latest news and blogs from the world of Slow The Flow, this page is updated regularly with a range of topical articles.

Results of research conducted on Plate Weirs installed in brooks on the Hebden Water catchment
Results of research conducted on Plate Weirs installed in brooks on the Hebden Water catchment – By Stuart Bradshaw from Slow The Flow Management Team. In January 2016 I wrote

A personal account of a day in the life of a River Surveyor – Beate Kubitz
Since March 2016, our river surveyors have been surveying various rivers in the catchment in the Calder Valley. As a result of all this very hard work, we have now

Are We Planning To Flood? – National Flood Forum Conference 2017
‘Are We Planning To Flood?’ Recently Slow The Flow: Calderdale attended The National Flood Forum Conference 2017. The conference was a very useful day, with a variety of delegates,

Water Table Monitoring – Autumn 2016
Written by Adrian West-Samuel from Moors for the Future Partnership. The team at the Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) undertakes a range of conservation works to reverse more than 200

What role can Natural Flood Management play as part of a solution to the flooding problems in the Calder Valley?
Traditionally flood alleviation has been implemented by civil engineering using “hard” solutions such as higher river walls, levees and tunnelling. These still have a significant role to play in the

New swale on Tipside in Todmorden
One of our ‘Source’ partners, Penny Bennett, has written about swale being used on Tipside in Todmorden. For more information on our partners at the ‘SOURCE’, please see this LINK.

How ‘mulching’ can help soil absorb rain water?
Beate Kubitz, one of our new colleagues at Slow The Flow Calderdale has written below about the process of mulching which helps the run off of rain water in a

Now over 1,500 photos on the river survey map!
Our dedicated volunteers have been working hard to collect the data that informs our work, researching the best places to implement Natural Flood Management (NFM) solutions in the upper Calder

Can you help ‘Slowtheflow’?
Slow The Flow: Calderdale is working to promote the idea of Natural Flood Management (NFM) in the Calder Valley and we are very proud to say that we have had a terrific