The North Devon Catchment Partnership
Partners - local organisations, communities and individual stakeholders

As part of the UK’s Water Framework Directive commitments, many actions are contained in the River Basin Management Plan and Flood and Coastal Risk Management Plan.  More information on this catchment and projects.

The area covered by the North Devon Catchment Partnership

Please find the North Devon Catchment Management Plan for 2019 below:

North Devon Catchment Management Plan 2019
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Catchment Partnership Update

Our review of data and opinions from across the area on priorities for water management projects in the next five years.

Our top priorities for 2016 - 2021 are:
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• action on diffuse pollution from agriculture
• working with landowners to manage river banks
• encouraging best practice in forestry to reduce sediment pollution
• removing barriers to fish passage
• investigating the extent of sediment pollution in our rivers
• tackling the tricky issue of non native invasive species​ 

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Healthy rivers and streams provide benefits for all and we need to find practical, affordable solutions for future management of these precious resources. Well-managed rivers bring life to our region and are good for the health, wealth and prosperity of North Devon.     

The North Devon Catchment Partnership is led by Devon Wildlife Trust and supported by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere, and meets on a regular basis.

The Catchment Partnership includes Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT), Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT), the Environment Agency, the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere and the North Devon Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

This initiative is funded by Defra’s Catchment Partnership Fund and the 3C project, selected under the ERDF funded INTERREG IV A France (Channel) – England Programme. 
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North Devon Catchment Partnership Projects

Below is a web application showing the North Devon Catchment Partnership's currently active projects.
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Please click the middle icon on the top right to select project layers. Clicking on the map will display a short project summary with external links to our partnership organisations websites for further information. 

Our current projects are:
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Acland Natural Flood Management Project - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
Anchorwood Bank Mitigation project - led by Devon Wildlife Trust
Biocultural Heritage Tourism - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
Braunton Facilitation Fund - led by Devon Wildlife Trust
Braunton Natural Flood Management Project - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
Coastal Natural Flood management - Estuary modelling - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
CSI - Citizen Science Investigations - led by Westcountry Rivers Trust
Culm Grassland Natural Flood Management Project - led by Devon Wildlife Trust 
CPES - Channel Payment for Ecosystem Services Project - led by Westcountry River Trust
Devon and Cornwall Soils Alliance - led by Westcountry River Trust 
Electrofishing volunteer training program - led by Westcountry River Trust
HMWB Taw/Torridge Estuary - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
Kenwith Valley Natural Flood Management Project - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
North Devon Focus Area Estuary Project - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
North Devon Landscape Pioneer - led by Natural England
Northern Devon Nature Improvement Area - Torridge - led by Devon Wildlife Trust
Plastic Free North Devon - led by consortium
Risk Aqua Soils - led by Westcountry River Trust 
Riverfly - led by Westcountry River Trust and Devon Wildlife Trust 
Sustainable Intensification Platform - Taw - led by Exeter University
Taw Valley Facilitation Fund - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
Torridge Headwaters Facilitation Project - led by Devon Wildlife Trust
Torridge River Restoration Project - led by Devon Wildlife Trust 
Upstream Thinking's Working Wetlands Project - led by Devon Wildlife Trust
Woods for Water - led by the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere ​

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Water Challenges and Choices Consultation

The North Devon Catchment Partnership held a Water Challenges and Choices event on the 4th February 2020 on behalf of the Environment Agency to engage with as many water environment stakeholders as possible and discuss the challenges and choices we will need to make with regards to our watercourses.

​This consultation subsequently informed the North Devon Catchment Partnership's consultation response to DEFRA which can be found below:

Water Challenges and Choices Consultation Response
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Agriculture Table

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Free ‘Safer Seas’ app here to download, launched by Surfers Against Sewage. ​​

​If you’re using the app, it would be great if you could share the experience of the water quality feedback:
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catchments@northdevonbiosphere.org.uk

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​To find out more, get in touch, share your views and/or be involved:
We can keep you up to date with what’s happening and offer you the opportunity to have your say via email, over the phone, at group or one-to-one meetings. 

Contact us here!

How clean are the waters near you?

If water quality is important to you... please get in touch and share your views on the bathing waters near you. ​

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To view North Devon's national Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) website page, please follow the link here. 

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