Our vision is a catchment with good quality water, good flow rates and water environments that are resilient to climate change. Water courses and flood plains that are protected and enhanced and able to benefit communities, businesses and nature.
Working in collaboration, we will facilitate a shared understanding of environmental need, align the interests and resources of public, private and third sector organisations and empower communities to deliver positive action in our catchment.
You can see the CamEO Storymap: here
The CamEO Partnership have identified four key themes to focus partnership delivery through the current Catchment Partnership Strategy. Each sub-catchment partnership has developed individual action plans which are embedded and support the direct delivery of these themes within the CamEO Catchment Partnership Strategy. These themes are:
Water Flow: Improve awareness and engagement of the use of water resources and improving understanding of the water resources picture within each sub-catchment.
Water Quality: Increase monitoring of water quality across sub-catchments, combining institutional data with citizen science, working with all stakeholders to reduce pollution. Develop monitoring and mapping frameworks to assess whole catchments.
Biodiversity and Landscape: Restore rivers so far as possible to their original courses, reconnect them to their floodplains, open up culverted and piped sections, remove unnecessary weirs and other structures, and adopt Nature based Solutions in managing flood risks in place of engineered and chemical solutions.
Delivering as Partnerships: Establishing shared and open data for partners to review collaboratively and feed into combined platforms. Identifying opportunities to gain funding and deliver projects through joint partnerships to achieve greater catchment-scale impact and improvements.