Multiple benefits

Multiple benefits - recap

SSSI condition – 98.6% favourable condition (PSA target)

Biodiversity Action Plan Targets

• SCAMP has brought 12,322 ha of BB within SSSIs into management toward favorable condition, representing c. 3% of the UK Priority BAP target for 2015

• 612 ha of degraded BB and 83km of eroding gullies and grips are being restored under SCAMP in the Peak District – achieving 15% of the PD degraded BB BAP target.

• 19.9ha of Upland Heath has been restored, contributing 20% of the Lancashire UH BAP target.

• Establishment of 9.3 km of new native species hedgerows across SCAMP achieves 1% of the total national target for all of the UK (including N Ireland).

• 22.7 ha of degraded Upland Hay Meadow in Bowland brought into favourable management by SCAMP since 2007. Improvements are being monitored and if successful across the full area would deliver 90% of the UK BAP target for 2010.

• 273.1 ha new native broadleaved woodland planted- - contributing 109% (more than all) of the Peak District BAP 2010 target.

Multiple benefits – recap

Improved water quality

• Colour

• Suspended solids

Tenant farming viability

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Multiple benefits – reduction in risk

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DWSP

Multiple benefits – reduction in risk

Intervention Total WQ parameter protected

Watercourse protected (m) by removing stock access

70,609 Pathogens, Suspended solids (SS), nutrients

Stock reduction of cattle 233 Pathogens, SS, nutrients

Stock reduction of ewes 2,321 Pathogens, SS

Stock reduction lambs 582 Pathogens, SS, especially cryptosporidium

In-wintering cattle in buildings with an associated muck handling facilities

526 Pathogens, SS, nutrients

In-wintering sheep in buildings with an associated muck handling facilities

223 Pathogens, SS

Ewes lambing indoors in new or converted buildings

2,852 Pathogens, SS, especially cryptosporidium

SSSI Moorland restoration / enhancement (ha) 10,902 Colour, SS

Bare Peat restoration (ha) 109 SS and colour

Multiple benefits – reduction in risk

Intervention Total WQ parameter protected

Grips Blocked (km) to aid re-wetting of peat

85 SS and colour

Bracken Control (ha) to stop encroachment on moorland

82 Colour

Water Troughs so animals do not access streams directly

89 Pathogens, SS, nutrients

Buildings for over wintering, lambing or muck handling

20 Pathogens, SS

Walling (m) to control stock movement and access

5,603 Pathogens, SS

Fencing (m) to control stock movement and access

189,071 Pathogens, SS

Multiple benefits – food and fibre production

Supporting the rural community

Keeping farmers farming

Increased opportunities for contractors

Ecotourism

Multiple benefits – social and economic wellbeing

Multiple benefits – carbon sequestration

Estate

Peat soil AreaKm2

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Bowland 100 9.5 5,349 12,397

DOC carbon loss by year – Upper Goyt monitoring catchment

 

Total DOC loss per year

Mean DOC loss per day

Median DOC loss per day

DOC loss kg/year/hectare

September 2006-September 2007 69,562kg 213kg 70kg 92kg

September 2007-September 2008 49,590kg 151kg 52kg 66kg

September 2008-September 2009 39,491kg 119kg 42kg 52kg

Multiple benefits – carbon sequestration

decrease in the levels of carbon in dissolved form year on year

43% drop in the DOC loss between the first and second year

• equivalent of that produced by nine Ford Focus cars driving 20,000km per year, or 239 car kilometres per hectare of catchment per year

Multiple benefits – Recreation

Multiple benefits – landscape

Multiple benefits – Heritage

Multiple benefits – climate stabilisation

United Utilities Corporate Responsibility Policy • Identify opportunities for environmental enhancement that are outside of regulatory

requirements;

• Invest to improve environmental water quality in line with regulatory requirements; and

• Endeavour to protect and enhance natural habitats and biodiversity as part of the way we manage our operational sites and land holdings.

United Utilities Strategic Direction Statement 2010-2035 • We want to extend SCaMP-type approaches to other catchment land we own and promote its

use on other catchments which we do not own but on which we nevertheless rely for water supplies.

• We are hopeful that these sensitive, low impact techniques will become the norm.

Multiple benefits – supporting company policies

WFD• North West River Basin Management Plan - Nutrients; Organic pollutants; Sediments (as a direct

pollutant) Extend Water company's Sustainable Catchment Management Plans (SCAMP) to other Water company land assets where it may benefit the water quality. 2010

• Solway Tweed River Basin management Plan – English Measures -Reduce pollution and colour impacts on drinking water supply through Sustainable Catchment Management Programme 2 (SCaMP) on United Utilities’ tenanted farms – Water quality, Diffuse pollution (general ), Agriculture/rural land management

Agri-environment schemes

Defra’s Demonstration Catchment Project – Eden

NE - Vital Uplands

NE Ecosystem Services Pilot - Worsethorne

Multiple benefits – supporting governmental and European policies and legislation

UU Capital expenditure on farm plan implementation

(£m)

UU Grant received(£m)

Bowland £3.59 £0.66

Southern £5.78 £2.14

Capital costs

• Stabilising raw water colour on catchment may result in less need to upgrade the receiving WTW

A number of works have been identified as requiring upgrading (chemical dosing, sludge) or replacement within the next 10 years

Reduction in investment in future technologies for treatment for colour

Operational costs

• A stabilisation in water colour could avoid future increases in cost of treatment

chemical, power, disposal of sludge

Multiple benefits – avoided future costs

Multiple benefits – avoided future costs

Yearly Average Colour for Hodder WTW Raw Water Including Predictions of Future Colour Trends With and Without the Sustainable Catchments Project

y = 4.6678x + 46.444

R2 = 0.8096

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Multiple benefits – pilot

SCaMP 1 Monitoring results beginning to show benefits of catchment interventions• Supported SCaMP 2 and non-owned catchment schemes

Opportunity to demonstrate to regulators, farmers, NGO’s and other land owners catchment management in action on a landscape scale• BBC television programme Country File and the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the

Earth.

Increased others knowledge of water company issues

Promoted close working relationships with regulators and other non-governmental organisations

Sustainable water resources are at the heart of the multi-benefit approach of SCaMP.

Supports DWSP approach – risk management.

Building on the SCaMP 1 success we have developed SCaMP 2 and are extending the approach in conjunction with the National Trust and Moors for the Future non-owned land.

Sustainable catchment management on drinking water catchment in the uplands is a win-win scenario for the consumer and society

Multiple benefits – summary