Riverine Systems
Slowing the Flow at Pickering Pickering, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
This partnership project was led by Forest Research in 2009 and completed in 2015 to help reduce flood risk for the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire. The overall goal for the project was to demonstrate how the integrated application of a range of land management interventions and measures can help reduce flood risk at the catchment scale while providing wider benefits for local communities. A strong local partnership was formed that led to an agreed-upon set of measures designed to reduce the chance of flooding in the town from 25 to 4 percent or less in any given year.
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