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Sedimentation on the River Rother
Sub catchment	Sub group	Action	Details	Timescale	Status	Partners	Priorities
Western Rother	Surface Water	Southern Water ‘Upstream Thinking’project	To develop a long term strategy that will include conceptualising, commissioning (including sourcing funding) and working in partnership to deliver innovative projects/investigations to deliver ‘good status’ in surface waters and groundwaters under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) within the Western Rother catchment.	2014 -2017	In Development	Southern Water South Downs National Park Authority Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Environment Agency		More
Western Rother	Surface Water	Catchment Sensitive Farming advice.	Supporting Landowner in the Western Rothers by delivering practical solutions and targeted support to enable voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.	Ongoing	In progress	Natural England Landowners Farmers		More
Western Rother	Surface Water	Sediment Traps	Development of sediment traps on agricultural land adjacent to the Western Rother just South of Petworth, on the Leconfield Estate landowners to reduce soil loss in the Rother Valley to help improve water quality and habitats for biodiversity.	2012 -2014	In progress	Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Environment Agency Landowners Farmers		More

Habitat Improvements on the River Rother
Sub catchment	Sub group	Action	Details	Timescale	Status	Partners	Priorities
Western Rother	Surface Water	Western Rother Fishery Habitat Enhancement Project	The project will through targeted habitat restoration work, enhancing both fishery habitat quality and the naturalness of flow characteristics along this stretch of the Western Rother.	2013-2014	In progress	Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Wild Trout Trust Petworth and Bognor Angling Club		More
Western Rother	Surface Water	Fittleworth Mill Fish Passage Easement	Development of a project for improving fish passage around Fittleworth Mill.	2014-2015	In Development	Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Landowners Environment Agency		More
Western Rother	Surface Water	Wolbeding Rother Enhancement project	Development of a project for improving fish passage around Fittleworth Wolbeding.	2014-2015	In Development	Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Wild Trout Trust National Trust Environment Agency		More

Abstraction/water resources pressures
Sub catchment	Sub group	Action	Details	Timescale	Status	Partners	Priorities
Western Rother	Water Management	Pilot Abstraction Water Trading Project on the Western Rother	Partnership Project led by Southern Water to create a pilot water trading market on Rother for abstraction licence holders	2014-2017	In Development	Southern Water Arun and Rother Rivers Trust Landowners Farmers		More
Western Streams	Surface Water/Water Management	Extending the scope of the Portsmouth Water River Ems NEP scheme	Development of a full river restoration project (i.e. not just Portsmouth Water making flow improvements through a revised augmentation scheme but physical channel modification too).	2014-2015	In Development	Portsmouth Water Environment Agency Arun and Rother Rivers Trust		More
Western Rother	Water Management	Formation of a Rother Abstractors Group	Supporting the formation of a Rother Abstractors Group to help/empower abstractors to manage water more effectively (such groups have been very effective in East Anglia). NB this could also link to Southern Water’s creation of a water trading market on the Rother.	TBC		Southern Water South Downs National Park Authority		More
Western Streams	Water Management	Bosham Stream	Improved land management practice with possible joint river restoration project	TBC		Portsmouth Water Environment Agency Arun and Rother Rivers Trust		More
Western Streams	Water Management	Swanbourne Lake	Study the impact of abstraction on the lake and the Wetland & Wildlife Trust SSSI.	TBC		Portsmouth Water Environment Agency Arun and Rother Rivers Trust		More

Groundwater quality (nitrate
Sub catchment	Sub group	Action	Details	Timescale	Status	Partners	Priorities
Catchment Wide	Groundwater	South Downs Collaborative Nitrate Modelling Project .	Risk mapping of nitrate pollution (risk maps). Identifying types of pollution of every groundwater body (pie charts). Development of scenarios for mitigation.	2013-2015	In progress	Downs & Harbour Clean Water Partnership Catchment Sensitive Farming Environment Agency Southern Water Portsmouth Water		More
Catchment Wide	Groundwater	Targeting of advice to key catchments by Downs & Harbours, CSF and EA.	Supporting Landowner by delivering practical solutions and targeted support to enable voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.Supporting Landowner by delivering practical solutions and targeted support to enable voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.Supporting Landowner by delivering practical solutions and targeted support to enable voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.Supporting Landowner by delivering practical solutions and targeted support to enable voluntary action to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture to protect water bodies and the environment.	Ongoing	In progress	Downs & Harbour Clean Water Partnership Catchment Sensitive Farming Environment Agency		More
Catchment Wide	Groundwater	Development and implementation of actions on the back of nitrate source apportionment modelling (evidence)	Development of projects to help reduce nitrate levels. This may include education/behaviour change programmes to farmers and end users (e.g. supermarkets – see Birds Eye Pea Growers initiative as an example). NB this can only be undertaken once the investigations have been completed.	Beyond 2015		Downs & Harbour Clean Water Partnership Catchment Sensitive Farming Environment Agency		More