12 the living loobagh project. anne goggin
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Area = 129km2
Kilfinane Pop 778
Kilmallock Pop 1635
Ardpatrick
Martinstown
Bulgaden
Spring 2013 Integrated Catchment
Management is your only
man!
It’s the economy, Stupid!!
You can’t be friend and enforcer!
Fish Kill August 2014
Different levels of participation
Information Sharing Fact sheets Websites Displays
Consultation Surveys Focus groups Open meetings
Collaboration Workshops Committees Advisory Panels
Empowerment Citizen control Deliberative • Forums • Summits • Juries Informing
people on what is going
to happen
Listening to people views
Involving people in problem solving
Joint decision making with
clearly defined
delivery roles
Participation Continuum
General Municipal Allocation
Cost: €8,597 for 1km
Streamscapes Loobagh
“Fantastic workshop-
Preparation was excellent – very educational “
“Excellent workshop,children
thoroughly enjoyed the day
and learnt a great deal”
“The children now understand the value of the water they use”
“….so much can be learned by
attending such a simple evening”
“Teachers and Students really
enjoyed the hands –on approach.”
Kids Can Fish!
EPA Catchment Science Course
Produce information boards
Control Giant Hogweed
Provide training on Riverfly Monitoring
RIPPLE Style Community Planning
Next stretch of in-stream works
Draft design done by Kilmallock Tidy Towns -To be in place next spring
€6000 funding (Local Agenda 21) for training in invasives control and pesticides use - 10 members of RSS to be trained in Feb 2016. Work to being in March 2016
To be progressed when Rivers Trust in place
Planning of next 1km is underway
Training delivered to 20 volunteers in Oct. Now have Irish tutor. Second course to be delivered in early 2016
2016 To Do List 1. Establish Rivers Trust 2. Look at funding opportunities
GMA? National Lottery? Failte Ireland? Sports Council? RDP? Salmon & Trout Conservation Trust? LIFE? Local Agenda 21? Intereg? EPA? DECLG?
3. Develop an Invasive Species App 4. Broaden participation (Business) 5. Develop RIPPLE style community
planning process 6. Consider making LIFE application? and.……………………………………………. PTO
figure out when to let go…….