9 Dec 2024
ADA & @MLC1862 discussed with @DefraGovUK #bufferstrip stewardship options for lowland watercourses maintained by #internaldrainageboards and other RMAs. Main topics included deposition of arisings and best practice for channel/bankside maintenance 👇
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26 Nov 2024
Fantastic couple of days in East Kent last week with environment officers of #internaldrainageboards from across England and the @CanalRiverTrust learning about #beavers ecology and interaction with lowland & embarked water management infrastructure. 1/2
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11 Sep 2024
Through the @DefraSoils Lowland Agricultural Peat Small Infrastructure Pilots (LAPSIP) #InternalDrainageBoards are installing new water management infrastructure to retain water safely in our lowlands conserving our peat soils for the future.
#BackBritishFarming 🌾
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11 Sep 2024
Last winter over 600 pumping stations operated by #InternalDrainageBoards worked flat out during the wettest winter on record. In Lincolnshire alone they pumped in excess of the 1.3 billion cubic metres of water. That's 10 Rutland Waters!
#BackBritishFarming 🌾
ALT A pumping station following heavy rain this winter
ALT A lowland pumping station operated by Kings Lynn Internal Drainage Board
ALT Flooded farmland in Lincolnshire Winter 2023/24
ALT Inside St Germans Pumping Station which broke records for water pumped this past winter
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20 Aug 2024
Pumping stations to open their doors for Heritage Open Days 2024 💧🏢🌊👷‍♀️ Find out how #InternalDrainageBoards help manage water levels and defend our lowland landscape from #flooding @LincHeritageDay @heritageopenday @Northlevelidb @W4IDB ada.org.uk/2024/08/pumping-s…
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10 Jul 2024
Great to see work progressing in #TheFens on one of the 21 @DefraGovUK Small Infrastructure Pilots being delivered by #InternalDrainageBoards to #RetainWaterSafely to help preserve and rewet our lowland #peat soils. @SteveReedMP @EmmaHardyMPHull @theCCCuk @DefraSoils
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19 Jun 2024
Great first day at #LincolnshireShow. Talking about the 1.3 billion cubic metres of water pumped by #internaldrainageboards in Lincolnshire during the wettest winter for a century. That's 10 Rutland Waters!
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18 Jun 2024
Come see us at the #LincolnshireShow tomorrow or Thurs in the Countryside Area. Find out how #internaldrainageboards have been managing water during the wettest 6 months for over a century. See a mobile pump at work & try dipping for water life with @LincChalkStream @lincsshow
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15 May 2024
Yesterday @10DowningStreet confirmed that @EnvAgency will be sending the prospectus to all #InternalDrainageBoards next week inviting applications to the ÂŁ75 million fund announced by the Prime Minister at the @NFUtweets Conference. 1/2
14 May 2024
Today we’re going even further to support British farmers.
Prime Minister @RishiSunak laid out the Government’s plan⬇️
ALT Graphic reads 'double the amount of funding for horticulture businesses, ÂŁ72 million fund to end the endemics diseases scheme, a new UK food security index to reinforce the country's food security.'
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7 May 2024
Find out more about the work of #InternalDrainageBoards to manage water levels across England's lowlands in this excellent new 30 minute documentary: To Keep The Water Flowing 📽️ada.org.uk/2024/04/to-keep-t…
ALT Chief Executive of Witham & Humber Drainage Boards
ALT Ouse and Derwent IDB works foreman in an excavator
ALT An IDB staff member adjust a water control structure
ALT View of a lowland watercourse and the title card for the new video about internal drainage boards that can be watched on YouTube
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24 Apr 2024
Maintenance works continue across all the Boards now we are getting some slightly drier weather. Here we have an example of maintenance on Cammeringham Drain in the Upper Witham District. #Drainage #FloodAware #InternalDrainageBoards
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23 Apr 2024
After an excessively wet few months, Upper Witham IDB’s Operatives busy on Wigsly Pump Drain, part of a programme of watercourse bank slip repair works. #Drainage #FloodAware #InternalDrainageBoards
ALT Operative stood in the watercourse while machine operates to repair bank slip
ALT Operative stood in watercourse while machine operates to repair bank slip
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15 Mar 2024
Did you see our CEO @InnesThomson & @PaulBurrowsy from the @MLC1862 talking about the vital work of #InternalDrainageBoards on @BBCCountryfile đź“ş last weekend?
Watch it on iPlayer (starts 10 mins in) here 👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x7j…
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9 Mar 2024
We're on TV tomorrow! đź“ş
At 7pm on BBC1 (Sun 10 March), @BBCCountryfile looks at #internaldrainageboards and the challenge of managing water levels across #TheFens and England's other lowland landscapes
@InnesThomson @Northlevelidb @MLC1862 @PaulBurrowsy
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8 Mar 2024
ADA welcomes the publication by @DefraGovUK of a new consultation seeking views on plans to update how #internaldrainageboards allocate their costs to farmers and local authorities.
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29 Feb 2024
Yesterday our Chief Executive @InnesThomson and Chair @robertcaudwell met with @DefraGovUK Floods Minister @_RobbieMoore to talk about this winter's floods, recovery and maintenance of lowland assets and waterways, and support for #InternalDrainageBoards
28 Feb 2024
@ADA_updates pleased to meet with Floods Minister @_RobbieMoore today to talk about a wide range of topics all aimed at helping to guide improvments to England’s river management and maintenance @robertcaudwell @ProagriLtd @EnvAgency @DefraGovUK
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31 Oct 2023
We'd be happy to help @charlottebsmith @BBCCountryfile talk to some of the #internaldrainageboards that have been working around the clock to evacuate floodwater from lowland catchments after Storm Babet @W4IDB @BlackSluiceIDB @WDIDB @InnesThomson @robertcaudwell
31 Oct 2023
Out with Deputy President @ProagriLtd this morning filming with @charlottebsmith and @BBCCountryfile for a feature on the devastating floods caused by #StormBabet with many farms still under water. Everyone now watching the progress & potential impact of #StormCiaran #flooding
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20 Sep 2023
A hugely important new opportunity for #InternalDrainageBoards (IDBs) to invest in the infrastructure they need to safely retain more water within the lowland landscape to preserve peat soils.
@ADA_updates is proud to be assisting @DefraSoils with this pilot grant scheme 👇
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🚨Application Window Open🚨
Working with @ADA_updates we've developed the Lowland Agricultural Peat Small Infrastructure Pilot, to enable IDBs to deliver projects that will enable more control of water levels for #peat preservation and rewetting.
Apply: find-government-grants.servi…
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20 Sep 2023
Calling all #InternalDrainageBoards (IDBs)! đź“Ł
We’ve launched a £5m Lowland Agricultural Peat Small Infrastructure Pilot.
This will support IDBs to install infrastructure and tech that increases control of water levels to preserve lowland #peat.
Apply: find-government-grants.servi…
ALT Photo of a tilting wier surrounded by peatland
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