12 the living loobagh project. anne goggin

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…….