Mendip Catchment
Mendip Catchment Strategy
Through our ongoing work within Mendip District Council we felt that a more proactive approach to the management of flooding in the district could be developed. One that was not reactive to the flooding issues as they arose but proactive about preventing the issues arising in the first place. Mendip sits at the top of the wider river catchments of the Brue and Somerset Frome and could have the potential to have real positive impacts on flood risk reduction to the lower levels and moors.
About the project
Calm Engineering secured £100,000 of SRA funding in 2019/20, on behalf of Mendip District Council, to undertake a catchment wide view of the potential flooding issues associated with non-main river watercourses and culverts within the district area. The primary objective was to look at ways in which we could deliver smaller catchment projects that reduced flooding and improved resilience to climate change whilst also providing additional environmental benefits at a community level.
Calm Engineering has been providing the project management services, commissioning specialist consultants to deliver the initial phase of this work, and engaging key partners for delivery and prioritisation of sites. We have identified 83 sub catchments in total to inform our future work programme and have been working closely with a multitude of partners to gather information and ensure coordinated delivery of projects with a common purpose. 23 priority sites have been identified for further review and we will be coordinating our funding approach to each site, guided by the partners who benefit from each of the schemes.
One of these sites, Rode, has already been developed into a stand alone project that we secured an additional £180,000 of SRA funding for in 2020/21.
