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tchmentased pproach Partnerships for Action

Catchment Based Approach Conference

Monday, 8th June 2015

Fishmongers’ Hall, London

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Levering Additional Funds

Chair – Helen Perkins The Wildlife Trusts

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Andy Whyle & Mark Anderson Ricoh SUDS


Ricoh SUDS: Context & Partners

Andy Whyle - RPL Environment Officer

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21,590km2

10 Catchments 912

waterbodies

5.3m people Dominant

land use agriculture &

forestry

The Magnificent Severn

The Magnificent Severn CaBa Group • 6 Catchment Partnerships • 46 projects completed 2013-15 • 103 active partners/stakeholders • Total estimated spend in period 2013- 2015 £8m

Middle Severn Catchment Steering Group

Clean Stream Team

Community / Business / Wildlife Trust / Agency

Partnership • Water sampling

• Report pollution

• Investigate Source

Pollution

• Stop Pollution

• Improve water quality

Friends of Apley: water sampling

BESST / EA: Electric Fishing

SWT / Ricoh Eco Ninjas - Sampling Local Partners: Pollution monitoring

Ricoh SUDS: Project funding justification approaches

Mark Anderson – RPL Maintenance Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markanderson55

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RPL Site - Existing Surface Water Drainage Map

Outfall #1

Surface Water

Approx. 35% Outfall #2

SW Drain

65% of

site

RPL Over

Head Cost.

Surface water

drainage

charges

£48,500/yr –

Calculated on

surface area of

roof and hard

standing areas

(roads, roofs,

car parks etc.)

North

RPL2

Building

RPL1

Building RPL3

Building

Site

Entrance

Rain Water

Drainage

Zone #1

Rain

Water

Drainage

Zone #2

Existing Site Drainage Controls 2015

Interceptor drain chamber

designed to separate oils

and solids from storm

water. Not designed for

diffuse pollution

Site Drainage Map Position of interceptor drains

Interceptor

Drain

RPL Drainage designed in 1993,

based upon OLD Hydrocarbon

toners. New SPR toner types are

Wax based and become Diffuse

when left in water (produce

coloured water)

Emission failures

Bag Filter failures

Unauthorised / Incorrect disposal

Ground

Remediation /

Site drainage

failure

Control of Contractors

waste failure

Building Systems failure

RPL Pollution Incident Risk

RPL historical incidents

2010 - Resulted in

pollution incident

in Priorslee lake.

EA were informed

by RPL staff. RPL

only escaped

enforcement action

due to prompt

action and ambient

water temperature.


RPL Incident reporting database from 2011 onwards shows 26 incidents due to spills in outside areas.

Current RPL Business Continuity plans include spill response training for Key staff and spill equipment maintained in key zones.

RPL Existing SW Drainage - Out To Priorslee

RPL Surface Water Drainage Route

Wesley Brook water course

Priorslee

Balancing

Lake

Outfall to

Brook In the case of a Toner

spill during rainy UK

weather there is Large risk

of toner washing into

drains and then into brook

and lake – If this Occurs,

RPL May have to STOP all

operations under direction

of UK Environment

Agency

Surface

Water (Rain)

Drainage

Existing RPL Drainage

designed in 1993, based upon

OLD Hydrocarbon toners. New

SPR toner types need different

pollution protection strategy

designed for ‘Diffuse

Pollution.’

RPL2

Building

RPL1

Building

RPL3

Building Site

Entrance

RPL Drainage controls Not

‘Fit for Purpose’


RPL Business has changed. From 2010 onwards largest RPL business unit has been toner colour filling (TCF). RPL use Customer Impact Analysis of the loss of TCF business, the following comparison highlights the business risk changes.

Customer Business Impact – Time Based (August 2014)

Business Unit Toner Colour Bottling

4 Hours 8 Hours 24 Hours 2 Days 1 Week 2 Weeks 4 Weeks

Toner Colour Bottling 2008 Manageable Manageable Disruptive Disruptive Critical Critical Disastrous

Toner Colour Bottling Aug 13 Manageable Manageable Disruptive Critical Disastrous Disastrous Disastrous

Current RPL Business Continuity plans include;

Safety stocks, redundant equipment and utility design, flexible manpower strategy, business continuity management plans, risk assessment and management controls, drainage design and 5s controls.

Current RPL Site Environment Risk Assessment shows significant vulnerability to pollution incident on site. The pollution could enter

drainage system and could result in site closure with associated business stoppage, as a result of enforcement action taken by UK

Environment Agency. Two days disruption is CRITICAL

RPL Drainage Options Matrix

Design Option

Site

disruption

Cost / ROI RPL Site

Benefits

Decision

Upgrade drainage

containment tanks

Installed to all 3

RPL buildings.

Serious site

access &

production

disruption

£950,000 /

19 years

Pollution risk

Eliminated;

Reduced

Drainage Charges

X

Install secondary

drainage system

& containment

tanks to site.

No Production

disruption,

some site

access

disruption

£680,000 /

14 years

Pollution risk

Eliminated;

Reduced

Drainage Charges

X

Install SuDS

scheme utilising

automated

pollution

containment

technology and

bioremediation

techniques

No Production

disruption,

some site

access

disruption

£250,000 /

4 years

Pollution risk &

Drainage Charges

Eliminated;

Site Amenity

Improvement;

Biodiversity

improvement;

UK Exemplar

SuDS Project.

Proceed to

Use UK

Government

Grant funds

to produce

Detailed

design

EU / UK Water Legal Context - March 2014

Current worldwide focus on reduction of water use, water flood management and improvement in water quality.

In EU latest legislation is focusing on drainage systems, especially with regard to drainage discharge quality into rivers & lakes.

The EU “Water Framework Directive” (WFD) has been issued to manage water quality. Existing Legislation ‘Water resources act & regulations 2009’ requires all companies to ensure risk of pollution is minimised and water use is monitored and reduced.

WFD target is to improve water quality in rivers / lakes so that all can achieve “Good Ecological Status” by 2027.

In UK there are MANY target areas for

improvement including: – Run-off from trading and industrial areas (i.e. RPL)

Telford area (RPL) has been identified as a

“failing catchment” and will be subject to increased EA monitoring and action.

There is no NEW law in 2014 but new regulations are ‘open for consultation’ with implementation planned for 2016

EA Water

Quality

Map of

West UK

& Wales

Telford

Area

RPL SUDS Budget and ROI

Suds Construction Budget set as £250,000 (estimated)

Stage #1 – create tender document and gain competitive quotation to fix actual cost.

Stage #1a – Submit detailed survey documents to achieve local government planning approval to proceed.

ROI Based upon Reduction in Surface water charge to Zero + RPL enhancement to showcase factory to increase sales.

Currently RPL pay £48,500/year to Severn Trent Water authority for Surface Water Drainage charges. Installation of SUDS scheme reduces this charge to zero.

Resulting Savings – Year #1 = £48500, Year #2 = £97,000, Year #3 = £145,500, Year #4 = £194,000 (not including extra sales opportunity benefits.)

If RPL proceed with this project it is possible to bid for Government Grant Funding for project (estimated at £50,000) for ‘National Exemplar Project’ for flood water management.

RPL SUDS ROI Investment Appraisal

Working with RPL’s Stakeholders

RPL’s strong stakeholder partnerships have been used to gain Government funding to produce detailed design of RPL site SuDS scheme to meet these new requirements

Though RPL membership of Business Environment Sustainability Support Telford (BESST) group, £15k funds have been utilised to design an exemplar SUDS project at RPL

This project design gives RPL tangible benefits, allowing us to express our environmental responsibility for the site and enhance our ‘showcase site.’

European

Parliament

UK Parliament

DEFRA

Environment

Agency

Shropshire

Wildlife Trust

BESST

RPL

Funding to

Promote

Water

Framework

Directive

(WFD)

Funding for

Local

Projects

Partnership

Strategy &

Funding

Project

Design

Innovation

& Delivery

Government

Grant

Funding

Stage 1 (2014-2015) - Reduce business risk from pollution incident – Proposed design

Flow of water

RPL-2

Building

Pollution incident

containment tank

Upper level Pool

Lower level SUDs

Pools for Bioremediation of

Diffuse pollution

Hydrodynamic

Separator

Downstream

Defender

(Vortex

Separators)

Hydro-brake http://www.hydro-

int.com/uk/products/hydro-brake-

optimum

RPL-1

To Existing

Outfall #2

Stage 1- Project

Budget Cost

£200,000

Cascade

between

levels

http://www.hydro-

int.com/uk/products/downstrea

m-defender

http://www.hydro-int.com/uk/products/hydro-brake-optimum







http://www.hydro-int.com/uk/products/downstream-defender






RPL Unique UK Exemplar Design Proposal

RPL SuDS project is Unique in UK

First time in UK a Large Private sector Organisation has

deployed Retrofit SuDS for Business improvement.

Unique combination of hydraulic site model design,

automated spill response to switch drainage to containment

tank, latest design ‘Downstream Defender‘ and ‘HydroBrake’

pollution prevention technology matched to Bio-remediation of

pollution within water detention pools.

RPL SuDS solution utilises redundant land on RPL site to

create new Biodiversity Habitat

Long term plan to turn this area into a specialised nature

reserve for all biodiversity and promote Ricoh CSR approach.

Creation of UK Exemplar site for Retrofit SuDS to promote

unique approach on RPL site.



RPL Existing site layout

RPL2

Building

RPL1

Building

RPL3

Building

RPL

Unused

Land

RPL Land

Available

for

Possible

expansion

RPL Proposed Site layout with SuDS

Upper level pool

Cascade

Lower Level

Water Pool

Employee Walkway

Employee access Bird Observation

Hide

Employee

Walkway with

interpretation

boards

RPL2

Building

RPL1

Building

RPL SuDS link to Ricoh Environment Targets

So Long.. And thanks for

all the Fish …

Any questions?

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Jo McIndoe Groundwork


Delivering sustainable CABA

partnerships:

exploring the economic,

social and

cultural opportunities

for income generation

Income Generation

Economic

•Employment and Training programmes

• Provides ‘manpower’

• Creates a ‘visible’ impact

• E.g. FSF (JCP) delivery – Luton Lee,

• or IRCAMP Social Enterprise – Rivers

Return with LWT, TCV, Blue Sky and GW

•Direct business engagement

• Riparian duties, compliance

• E.g. business support programme on

Weaver (linked to BID, funded by UU) –

includes breakers yards

• CSR – e.g. Vauxhall Motors, Luton

Airport, Aviva, M&S, Lowrie Hotel etc

• Links to new ERDF business

competitiveness programmes

Income Generation

Social

•Tapping into community ‘power’ to

accelerate volunteering, stewardship,

friends groups

• E.g. community / schools

engagement project on the Luton

Lee (70k TW, match from Luton

Airport)

• #Love my river project on the

weaver (EA catalyst £, UU

catchment wise & LA match)

• Volunteer group facilitation?? -

much more could be done!!!!

• Youth Engagement – active

process of engaging NCS primes,

link re: social impact projects –

includes social media projects

Income Generation

Cultural

•Heritage initiatives, via HLF – not a short term

opportunity but has potential

• E.g. Saltscape – a major HLF project,

matched to local money, to renovate

the ‘saltscape’ around the Gowrie

• Or, River Tees Rediscovered

• Or, Rivington Terraced Gardens, Wigan

(with Rivington Garden Trust)

• Or, Colne Valley Park (with Chiltern

Chalk Streams)

•Arts programmes

• E.g. carnival arts programme, Luton

• Landscape regeneration – landfill tax

grants Biffa major supporter

Income Generation

Others

•Health – NDPP, ‘Get Out, Get Active’, PHE

•Environment – protection, adaptation,

mitigation

•European Funding

•HS2

•Farmers

•Crowdfunding

Thank you

Any Questions?

Joe McIndoe

[email protected]

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Jack Spees Ribble Catchment Partnership


Jack Spees

Trust Director

Ribble Rivers Trust

Aligning

Catchment

Objectives

Contents:

The Ribble

Ribble Life CaBA Partnership

How we sought to align our

objectives

Ecosystem Service Planning

Prioritisation Tools

Galvanising this into action – Ribble

Life Together

The Ribble…

900 Square miles

Mixture of land uses:

Extensive Agriculture

Intensive Agriculture

Forestry

Urban Areas

Industry

1.25 million people

9 Borough Councils

2 County Councils

2 Unitary Authorities

1 National Park

1 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

The Ribble Life Partnership

A huge number of stakeholders & interest groups…

Created a stakeholder “exchange”

Evolved into a partnership board

A very inclusive governance development process

Identified our partnerships key activities

We shared data, evidence and objectives

A range of different Objectives

Conflicting

“Unrelated”

Complimentary 0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

How we sought to align

objectives Initially partners tried to translate WFD objectives to

there own

The wrong way round

Must map partners Objectives to WFD!

But there are water objectives beyond WFD….

Need to identify:

What benefits?

How to deliver?

Who pays?

To begin this process we used Ecosystem Service Visualisation

Partner objectives can be better aligned

Can be more easily visualised

Evidence of need

Outcomes AND outputs more measurable

What benefits?

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Wetlands and

Water Synthesis

H₂O

How to deliver? It may seem obvious

But at a catchment scale?

How to deliver multiple benefits?

Prioritising the works

Scoping exercise

Evidence and Data to identify every action…

Prioritising

Still to many actions in to many places….

Where do you get the benefits?

Prioritised short list….

Who pays…..

Galvanising into action Having shortlisted our activities and locations

Worked with partners to identify funding sources

Submitted several EoI’s

Positive feedback from the HLF

8 months of furious work later

£5million cash value project submitted

£2million in-kind and volunteer in addition

5 months after that

SUCCESS – 18 month development phase

Fingers crossed followed by 3.5 year delivery phase

The actions Wetlands

Woodlands

Fish passage

Training

Education

Access

Interpretation

Data Sharing

Monitoring

Publicity

Consultation

Each will have direct input from the partners

What will success look like? Woodlands that improve water quality, habitat and climate change mitigation Wetlands that reduce flood risk, improve water quality and increase the quantity of priority habitat Connectivity of riverine habitat by 20% The number of people accessing rivers by providing 15 circular walk routes The knowledge and awareness of the Ribble Catchment heritage The understanding of the benefits a healthy river provides The number of volunteers helping to improve the condition and management of the catchment The number of people trained in catchment management activities The overall condition of the Ribble Catchment A lasting legacy of partnership working in the Ribble Catchment to sustain improvements

What will REAL Success look

like? Demonstrable outcomes of catchment

improvements

The REAL success will be the legacy

Embedded way of co-delivering

Set in plans going forward

Greater investment from all in improving

catchments

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Concluding Remarks

Sarah Chare Environment Agency

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Catchment Based Approach Conference

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