Eddleston Water Restoration Site Visit

Natural Flood Management Site Visit and Tweed Forum Discussion

This is a whole day event, leaving Stirling at 9am and returning by 5pm. We will put on a free bus to take you to Peebles for a visit to this excellent example of natural flood management and river restoration.

Tweed Forum will lead the visit to explore the restoration work and the extensive monitoring being undertaken as part of Scottish Government’s long-running study of the effectiveness of a catchment approach to river restoration utilising a range of natural flood management (NFM) methods.

Recognised by UNESCO as the UK’s first Ecohydrology Demonstration site and winner of multiple awards, the study begun in 2010 is providing a wealth of evidence for the best ways to design and deliver NFM and associated habitat restoration across a 69km catchment in the Scottish Borders.

Schedule for the day

09:00 Meeting at Forthside Car Park for bus to site

09:15 Collection from Falkirk

10:30 Meet in Peebles for discussion and tea break, site visit

13:30 Shared free lunch and discussions, continue site visit

15:30 Complete visit, bus back to Forth Valley

17:00 Arrival in Stirling

There will be some walking in potentially poor weather, please wear appropriate foot wear and clothing.

Dietary requirements - please let us know if you have any dietary requirements, lunch and snacks will be provided free

Further details will be sent to you in advance of the visit

There will be 3 pick up and drop off points ( Alloa, Stirling and Falkirk), there is also an option to make your own way there.

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