PM 17 - Create new ponds and restore and enhance existing ponds
- Code
- PM 17
- Measure
- Create new ponds and restore and enhance existing ponds
- Description
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shallow bank gradients, broad drawdown zones and underwater bars and shoals. Ideally allow ponds to colonise naturally and ensure they are protected from future damage. Restoration of ponds will include actions such as reducing shading through traditional tree management, reinstatement of a clean water supply, de-silting and buffering from pollution.
- Wider environmental benefits
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Improving water quality Increasing flood risk management Reducing climate change impacts Promoting nature friendly farming Controlling invasive species
- Links to additional information and guidance
- Priority
- Freshwater habitats are safeguarded
- Priority description
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Herefordshire has greater than the national average density of ponds, as well as a diverse range of other freshwater habitats. These are vital places for wildlife and provide freshwater resilience to the landscape, which will be increasingly important as climate change impacts are experienced. It will also be important to ensure the ponds are kept in as natural a state as possible. With many ponds starting to be more actively gardened this can lead to an increase in introduced species and unnatural nutrient loads impacting the potential biodiversity and species that could depend on them. Expanding, restoring and reconnecting these habitats will be crucial to maintaining resilience and benefitting both species and people.
- Mapped
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No