ouse washes – accelerated collaboration & visual model
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Ouse Washes – Accelerated Collaboration & Visual Model. The Concept – ‘wire-frame’. Environment & Place. Housing & Jobs. Infrastructure. Business & Skills. Understanding. Information. Data from systems and databases. Names on the Ouse Washes. Great Ouse River. (Old) Bedford River 1636. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ouse Washes – Accelerated Collaboration & Visual Model
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Environment & Place
Infrastructure
Business & Skills
Understanding
Housing & Jobs
Information
Data from systems and databases
The Concept – ‘wire-frame’
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(Old) Bedford River 1636
New Bedford River/Hundred Foot Drain 1652
Old Bedford River
Great Ouse River
Counter Drain
River DelphOld Bedford River
Forty Foot Drain
Names on the Ouse Washes
Relief Channel
Cut-off Channel
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Course of the Great Ouse River
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The Bedford river was cut in 1636 to drain the Fens for use as agricultural land
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However, flooding continued. A second channel was created, called the New Bedford River (also known as the Hundred Foot Drain) in 1652
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This is the original (Old) Bedford River
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In order to store flood water between the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River, further changes were needed.
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Welches Dam was created and the Forty Foot Drain was connected to the Old Bedford River
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The counter drain was then connected to create the outside channel to the Ouse Washes.
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A new channel was created inside the Ouse Washes. River Delph connects to the South end of the Old Bedford River
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Forty Foot Drain
New Bedford River (Hundred Foot Drain)
Channel Names on the Ouse Washes
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The parallel channels created a huge water storage structure able to capture 900,000m³ of flood water
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Fenland has dried shrunk so the Forty Foot drain no longer drains into the Ouse Washes
Land shrinking below sea level
Land shrinking below sea level
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Forty Foot Drain is no longer connected
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The Ouse Washes
Stores flood water from the Great Ouse River
Protects river banks downstream to Kings Lynn from being over-topped
Defends important agricultural land and properties from flooding throughout the Fens
Provides washland grazing pastures and wetland habitats for the benefit of agriculture, nature and wildlife
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The Ouse Washes
• Stores flood water from the Great Ouse River
• Protects river banks downstream to Kings Lynn from being over-topped
• Defends important agricultural land and properties from flooding throughout the Fens
• Provides washland grazing pastures and wetland habitats for the benefit of agriculture, nature and wildlife