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Opportunity Mapping 🌳 Natural Flood Management 🌳 Landscape regeneration 🌳 Re-wilding Q. What is the best way to start opportunity mapping? A. Locate the wet spots. Use the NFM App to 🌐 locate wet spots 🌐 geo-reference photos 🌐 share location of wet spots using kml files. The NFM App is available to download from the App Store, now with a 7 day free trial. https://lnkd.in/djNDRqbi

Do you want to showcase the quality of your Natural Flood Management project without the time-consuming effort of producing high quality documents? In 2017 Katherine Colby Hydrologists Limited undertook a detailed survey of Stroud District Council's NFM project. I produced a one page summary report for each intervention and a map for each catchment. It was a great project but quite a lot of effort went into producing high quality deliverables that showed off their fantastic NFM project work. So I worked with an app developer and a team of software developers and developed the NFM App. We built the NFM App so that project officers can showcase their amazing work without the time-consuming effort of producing high quality reports and mapping. You can download the NFM App now from the App Store at https://apple.co/4873M1j Image 1: How Katherine Colby Hydrologists Ltd undertook NFM surveying in 2017 AND Image 2: How Katherine Colby Hydrologists Ltd survey NFM now with the NFM App and Dashboard

January 2024 Floods ULUGURU LTD has reduced the price of the NFM App monthly subscription for the month of January on the Apple App Store to support post-flood surveys following the devastating flooding experienced across the UK. Normally £45 per month the NFM App has been reduced by more than 50% to just £19.99 for the month of January. It is widely known and reported that undertaking post-flood surveys are really important to validate hydraulic modelling that informs our UK flood maps. What is less widely discussed is the role of post-flood surveys in improving our understanding and effectiveness of nature-based solutions to flooding. Nature-based solutions such as natural flood management (NFM), river restoration schemes and sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) have the potential to improve flood resilience of communities to small scale flooding and improve the resilience of hard-engineered flood infrastructure to climate change, by managing sediment mobilisation and slowing the catchment response to rainfall events. The NFM App supports flood officers, community flood groups and flood consultants in undertaking post-flood surveys of their catchments. Use the NFM App to capture: ✅ Photographs with GIS point location files ✅ GIS location of flow paths and debris ✅ Damage to infrastructure, interventions, structures ✅ Accumulation of sediment, vegetation, rubbish ✅ Erosion of watercourses ✅ Changes to structures and their environmental settings ✅ Changes to natural flood management interventions ✅ Changes to river restoration schemes ✅ Changes to SUDS projects ✅ Document potential locations for future natural flood management opportunities ✅ Opportunities for river restoration and wetland creation etc. The Natural Flood Management App Dashboard allows NFM App users to turn their site notes into PDF reports, CSV spreadsheets and KML GIS files. The NFM App monthly subscription is available on the Apple App Store for £19.99 during the month of January. Download the App from the Apple App store at: https://apple.co/4873M1j For more information about the app visit https://lnkd.in/dnjndh8V

Planning Surveying natural flood management (NFM) interventions enables planning for future works. Recording the location and details of your NFM interventions illustrates their spatial distribution through a project catchment. From this you can identify which sub-catchments have no, or few NFM interventions and scope up works to fill in the gaps. Whether your plan is to construct & leave OR manage & maintain it is necessary to record the location and details of NFM interventions for future planning. By monitoring the details of the NFM interventions you can identify those that are silting-up rapidly requiring de-silting, additional interventions, or changes to upstream land management practices. The Natural Flood Management App (NFM App) update is now LIVE with monthly and yearly subscription payment options. Use the NFM App for a practical and standardised method for recording Natural Flood Management. Visit the new website for more information at https://lnkd.in/d-Q4bNHx ***** Kat Teakle I am a Hydrologist that specialises in flood risk management and restoration of fluvial environments. I have an M.Sc in River Environmental Management from the University of Birmingham. I provide digital solutions and strategic water management services. I write about managing water sustainably using nature-based solutions.

Happy New Year! Kicking off the new year with a new website to tell you a bit more about the NFM App and how it can help you produce high quality surveys for your natural flood management project. Click on the link below and go and check it out. https://lnkd.in/dnjndh8V #nfm #naturalfloodmanagement

Communication How is your communication strategy? How are you sharing information, knowledge, ideas? In the course of your Natural Flood Management (NFM) project the expectation is that you communicate with quite a few people: DEFRA, project funders, land owners, your team, the wider NFM community, to name just a few. DEFRA want you to share data and findings to build the evidence base. Your project funders want to be informed of progress with your project and how you are spending the budget for your project. Land owners want to be informed of where you are working and specifics of what you are going to do, have done on their land Your team need to know all the details of your work so that they can support you with monitoring, maintenance and input to planning future works. You want to share your project details, knowledge and ideas with the wider nature-based solution community. How are you sharing this information? Do you make maps in QGIS or in ArcGIS? Do you have a spreadsheet with all the information in it? Do you write reports detailing all the information about your NFM project? Does it take a long time, or not really? I would really like to know, let me know in the comments ⬇ #nfm #naturalfloodmanagement #naturebasedsolutions #communication