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WRE Technical Programme

Steve Moncaster Technical Director Norfolk & Suffolk Stakeholder Assembly

July 1 2019

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Contents

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• 1. Background
• Water resources in Norfolk & Suffolk
• National planning framework
• Programme elements
• Overall WRE approach
• 2. Environmental Land Management schemes
• 3. Priority catchment projects
• 4. Regional Planning
• 5. Value of the WRE Programme in Norfolk & Suffolk

Key message:

• We are planning for a strong economy and a flourishing environment in Norfolk

& Suffolk

• Each element of our technical programme supports delivery of the national

planning framework

• We are implementing measures to strengthen our non-PWS planning effort

Background

The water resource planning problem in Norfolk & Suffolk

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Norfolk and Suffolk water resources:

• Dominated by groundwater but with locally significant abstraction from surface water
• Limited resource availability
• Significant environmental pressure from abstraction and poor water quality
• There will be less water in the future for people, businesses and the environment

National Planning Framework

For water resources

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• Draft WRE regional water

resource management plan needed by August 2021

• Final draft by August 2022
• Must include water needs of

PWS and other sectors

• Must consider enhanced

environmental improvements

National Planning Framework Requirements for regional plans

WRE programme elements

Meeting the needs of the national planning framework

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Phase II WRE regional strategy Priority catchment projects Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs)

…WRE will also join up with flood risk management plans

Martinez, P. (2018) Laspidou, C. (2018)

Overall WRE approach

Working in the water-energy-food-environment nexus

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We’re planning for:

• Public water supply (PWS)
• Irrigated agriculture & food processing
• Manufacturing industries
• Energy & power generation
• Environment

Our vision is for a strong economy in the WRE region and a flourishing environment

Phase II WRE regional planning

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Approach

• Phase II regional plan will be developed using

same multi-sector trade-off approach as Phase I

• The non-PWS elements are being strengthened
• We are planning to map conservation priorities across the

region and use these to coordinate input from eNGOs

• We have set up a network of sub-regional planning groups

to assess non-PWS issues in detail and develop a bigger & better portfolio of multi-sector options

a b c d e f g h i

Planning Group PWS Energy Agrifood Manufacturing Environment a b c d e f g h i

Key Planning Group Issues & Priorities South Humber Bank OxCam Arc

Priority Catchment projects

General approach

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Interreg project summary

“Water for Tomorrow” Priority Catchment project

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Purpose

• Reduce the cost of drought by improving access to water during periods of water

scarcity Approach

• Shared vision planning & real-time management of the available resources

Deliverables

• A catchment based multi-sector planning process
• A web-based catchment management system tool
• A “Water For Tomorrow” toolkit & training programme

Principal economic and environmental benefits

• Potential for deferred expenditure on drought related

capital schemes

• Reduced vulnerability to drought restrictions
• More water for the environment

Other benefits include: 1. More/better options for managing flood risk 2. Opportunities to shape the future of abstraction reform and test different “Catchment System Operator” approaches

Interreg budget summary

Taking opportunities to reduce the cost of our programme

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Gross costs & contributions from partners

• Total gross cost:

£2,374k

• WRE:

£1,190k

• Environment Agency:

£419k

• French BRGM:

£391k

• French Syndicats:

£374k Net Costs

• Total net cost

£712k

• Net cost for WRE:

£357k (approximately 15% total project cost)

Notes:

1. We are working with Lincolnshire County Council and other partners on a similar project in the South Forty Foot Drain Catchment – the “Smart Water Management” project 2. We are promoting a water trading project on the lower Nene and lower Ouse systems involving abstractors, drainage authorities and others

ELM project distribution and type

Integrated land and water management

Lincolnshire fen & limestone beck farm cluster Cambridgeshire chalk streams farm cluster Lincolnshire fenland single farm Suffolk trout stream farm cluster Lincolnshire landscape scale fen & limestone beck Norfolk wet and dry heath single farm Norfolk landscape scale chalk streams

Proposed ELM objectives & approach

Farming water

Test different ways to deliver water related public goods

• Clean & plentiful water
• Thriving plants & wildlife
• Reduction in harm from natural hazards such as flooding

& drought

• Enhanced beauty, heritage and engagement with the

natural environment Test the market for water related private goods

• Pollution control
• Flood control
• Drought risk mitigation
• Sustainable abstraction

General approach

• Farmer led partnerships with environmental NGOs, water

companies and others

WRE value added

In Norfolk & Suffolk

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At regional scale: more joined up Water Resource Management Plans (WRMPs) for Anglian Water & Essex and Suffolk Water

• To maximise the net environmental gain and
• ther multi-sector benefits from the AW

strategic water grid and any future reservoir(s) in the Anglian region At sub-regional scale: more integrated approach to water resource management and planning

• Improved access to water during droughts
• Increased resilience for the natural systems on

which all abstractors depend

• “…more, bigger, better and joined places for

nature…” (Lawton Review, 2010)

Thank you.

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