Projects in the Tyne Catchment Plan
The Tyne Catchment Plan is a project-based plan. It contains information about the current work going on in the catchment, and also sets out ambitious proposals for future projects which will help achieve the Goals in the Plan.
For more information about each project, click on the links below. Current projects appear further down the page.
Proposed projects
- P1 – Monitoring the impacts of combined sewer overflows
- P2 – Remediate the former St Anthony’s tar works site
- P3 – Friars Goose chemical works investigation (updated April 2013)
- P4 – River Don and tributaries water quality & flood risk improvements (updated April 2013)
- P5 – Tackling minewater pollution (updated April 2013)
- P6 – Tackling pollution
- P7 – Address flooding and sewage contamination on the lower Ouseburn
- P8 – Bankside willow planting
- P9 – Media campaign on wrong connections (updated April 2013)
- P10 – Waterways for wildlife (updated April 2013)
- P11 – Rural climate change adaptation (updated April 2013)
- P12 – Urban green infrastructure programme (updated April 2013)
- P13 – Storm overflow assessment and mitigation in woodlands
- P14 – Catchment invasive species co-ordinator (updated April 2013)
- P15 – Mink monitoring & control
- P16 – Woodland business awareness
- P17 – Woodlands for Water – woodland creation, management & best practice (updated April 2013)
- P18 – Freshwater biodiversity – what’s next after salmon
- P19 – Humshaugh Burn fish migration and spawning improvements
- P20 – Opening up culverted watercourses (updated April 2013)
- P21 – Assess and improve fish passage throughout the Tyne (updated April 2013)
- P22 – Peat and people (updated April 2013)
- P23 – Flood control and protection at Blanchland
- P24 – Flood storage solutions at former gravel extraction sites
- P25 – Langley Burn flood alleviation
- P26 – Slow the flow (updated April 2013)
- P27 – Capturing local knowledge to improve flood modelling
- P28 – Community flood resilience workshops
- P29 – Ouseburn drainage infrastructure
- P30 – Ouseburn tree planting
- P31 – Ovingham flood risk assessment
- P32 – Prudhoe drainagerunoff assessment
- P33 – Derwent Reservoir releases
- P34 – Team Valley improvements (updated April 2013)
- P35 – Continued research into and demonstration of measures to reduce diffuse pollution from agriculture
- P36 – From research to delivery
- P37 – Derwent Valley landscape partnership (updated April 2013)
- P38a – Habitat improvements for wading birds (updated April 2013)
- P38b – Tyne kittiwakes breeding programme (updated April 2013)
- P39 – Sustainable drainage systems awareness & education
- P40 – Ebchester hydropower and engagement & education programme
- P41 – Tyne Catchment Pilot – from plan to action (updated April 2013
- P42 – Access for canoeing
- P43 – Watersports centre of excellence
- P44 – Access for recreation (updated April 2013)
- P45 – Publicising the Tyne’s recreational opportunities (updated April 2013)
- P46 – Stream Team & Stream Champions (updated April 2013)
- P47 – Access for health & wellbeing (updated April 2013)
- P48 – Community engagement and volunteer days on Tyne tributaries (updated April 2013)
- P49 – Corbridge schools river ecology education (updated April 2013)
- P50 – Education on river issues (updated April 2013)
- P51 – John Muir Discovery Award (updated April 2013)
- P52 – Sage riverlink
- P53 – Tree based education and improvements (updated April 2013)
- P54 – Wet, Wild & Wiggly (updated April 2013)
- P55 – Tyne engagement & education programme (updated April 2013)
- P56 – River Derwent awareness & improvements (updated April 2013)
- P57 – Public & community recording of river issues
- P58 – Tyne visualisation tools
Current projects
- C1 – In-situ minewater treatment
- C2 – Minewater and sewage treatment at Birtley
- C3 – Minewater monitoring and treatment
- C4 – Carr Shield abandoned mine
- C5 – Minewater Investigations
- C6 – Living Waterways
- C7 – Ouseburn – Great Park
- C8 – North East Lakes
- C9 – Clean Tyne
- C10 – National Park farm advice
- C11 – Silt Reduction Partnership
- C12 – Peatland Programme
- C13 – Haltwhistle Burn improvements
- C14 – Woodlands for Water (updated April 2013)
- C15 – Ouseburn Integrated Drainage Strategy
- C16 – Forestry improvements
- C17 – Forest Streams
- C18 – Border Uplands Nature Improvement Area
- C19 – River Tyne Freshwater Pearl Mussels
- C20 – Volunteer & Farmer Alliance
- C21 – Farmland Bird Advice
- C22 – Northern Uplands Chain Local Nature Partnership (updated April 2013)
- C23 – Kielder Water Voles
- C24 – Northumbrian Loughs
- C25 – Protecting designated bird sites
- C25a – Protecting designated sites
- C26 – Flood alleviation on Shibdon Meadow
- C27 – Fish passage works
- C28 – River Watch
- C29 – River Team improvements
- C30 – Tackling urban diffuse pollution from industrial estates
- C31 – Freshwater Pearl Mussel breeding programme
- C32 – Cheviot Futures
- C33 – Flood Modelling
- C34 – Community action on flooding
- C35 – Tyne Catchment Pilot
- C36 – Green Infrastructure opportunity areas
- C37 – National Park Rangers
- C38 – Local engagement on mining issues
- C39 – Salmonid and diatom research
- C40 – Water Framework Directive Investigations
- C41 – Impacts of abandoned mines on marine organisms
- C42 – Nenthead spoil stabilisation trials
- C43 – Agricultural research at Nafferton Farm
- C44 – Diffuse Urban Pollution monitoring and remediation
- C45 – Monitoring
- C46 – Wild Watch
- C47 – Monthly wetland birds surveys
- C48 – Big Sea Survey
- C49 – ERIC North East
- C50 – Bird population data
- C51 – Wildlife Surveys