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Title: Katherine Causer The Mersey Life Project Manager


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Introduction
  • Katherine Causer The Mersey Life Project
    Manager
  • 01925 543315
  • katherine.causer_at_environment-agency.gov.uk
  • www.environment-agency.gov.uk/merseylife

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25 years ago

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25 years on

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New challenges

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Mersey Life a major river restoration project
building on the benefits that improvements in
water quality have brought about

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creating better fisheries
  • removing barriers to fish migration


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creating a better place for wildlife
  • restoring and creating habitats


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creating a better place for people
  • improving access and recreation

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creating a portfolio of projects


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Mersey Life Area 90,352 hectares Population 1.2
million
Mersey 48 km Goyt 31 km Bollin 42 km All
tributaries 486 km
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The Process
1. Data collation and interrogation
2. Data analysis, identification of opportunities
and constraints
3. Creating Options
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The Products
1. The Portfolio (with Technical Notes)
2. The Database
3. Ecological, Environmental and Socio-economic
data analysis on GIS
4. Reports GIS Summary and User Guide
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A River Journey
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The River Goyt
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The Mersey
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The Bollin
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161 projects
8 million estimated project costs
Projects 116 river habitat 50 survey and
monitoring 69 fisheries 85 access and
recreation 81 protected species 12 educational 48
water quality 13 communications 41 flood risk
benefits 9 stakeholder engagement 46
geomorphological
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Enhancements floodplain enhanced/restored 408ha
wet grassland created/restored 82ha wet woodland
created 12.5ha reedbed created/restored 8ha str
ategic woodland management (Goyt) 869ha
restored channel habitat 35km fisheries
habitat enhanced 23km priority fisheries
access 60km in-channel enhancements
(Mersey) 19km riparian buffer strip
creation 61km improved riverside
access 13km
off-line channels created 8 on-line channels
created 9 ponds created 32 improved fishery
sites 14 RIGS designation 1
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