Natural Flood Management in Practice
Ben Thorne, FWAG SW
Soil Water Storage
Grassland sub-soiling
Maize – 16,000 ha – 8% of farmed area
Using flow pathway mapping
Silt traps
Filter fence
Filter Soxx
Coir rolls
AfterBefore
Bunded ScrapeIntercepting flow pathway in valley
After
Bunded scrape to intercept flow pathway
Strategic planting
Floodplain scrapes
Before
Leaky Pond
After
During
Construct ditch to take run-off from road to pond
Construct footbridge over ditch
Construct ditch/swale to channel water into pond Bund constructed from site
soil
Area to be excavated to create pond Use soil arisings to form bund
Not to scaleIndicative view only
In ditch features
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