Postscripts

 Ongoing matters of interest and comment

 

1. CIWEM & FRM  (20Mar12)
   • Water supply and flood risk – a marriage for 2012 ??
   • Both conveyed to the altar by UK Rivers
   • Environment Agency brief on “The Greening of Flood Risk Management”
2. NFM Roll-out: Moorland; Farmed-Upland; Floodplains; Infrastructure; SUDS
   • max features for minimum impact
3. Ecosystem Services
   • Paid ecosystem resource
   • Section 106 offset; PR09; PR14
   • CSF; Catchment Sensitive Farming
4. Multiple Benefits from rural buffer-strips: a Welsh perspective.
5. Outcome realization: Uncertainty v. Delivery
6. 2D v 1D models; convergence v. divergence; anuga
7. Run-off Attenuation:
   • 1D theory
   • Remote sensing of potential RAF locations; Perfect coursework for geographers
   • Networked research groups
8. NFF Conference (7th March 2012, SOAS, London)
   • No mention of NFM, RAF’s, SUDS, Green Reservoirs, etc
   • Nor the EA’s “Greening of Flood Risk Management” (above )
   • More to Flood risk than insurance and resilience ??
9. Point v. Diffuse sources
   • Point-source pollution relatively easy; DWPA by culture and best practice, both more difficultLikewise attenuation:
   • DWAA still on the drawing board
10. Open source v. proprietary modelling code
    • ownership; flexibility; economy
    • anuga; R2D
11. Main river as listed conveyance structure as canals – regulated by local trusts briefed to deliver WFD good water by best practice

Keys: FIRM, NFM, WFD, CFD, POST, RAF, PLOT, SUDS, NFF, FRCM, NEAS

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