A guidance document on engaging with the Water Framework Directive – a legal framework for the protection and promotion of sustainable water management of surface waters (including coastal waters out to one nautical mile) and groundwater.

This note provides some basic guidance for CaBA Partnerships on how to engage their LEP and provides examples of collaboration.

The CaBA Biodiversity Pack focusses on the potential to restore natural processes, and the benefits this can have. It encourages practitioners to look to the restoration of natural ecosystem function when planning and delivering catchment projects, in order to make sustainable contributions to WFD and Biodiversity 2020 targets.

Guidance documents on river safety and details of our training programmes.

Find out more about GIS and StoryMap training available to CaBA partnerships.

The main component of a CaBA catchment plan is a list of projects and activities that move the partnership towards its vision for the catchment, whilst delivering the strategic objectives of key CaBA organisations including the Environment Agency, Natural England, Water Companies and Local Authorities.

Develop shared priorities for a catchment so CaBA partnerships have an opportunity to feed in local evidence about other benefits, in addition to WFD.

Your catchment partnership will need to refresh your vision every five years. Here are some examples to get your started.

An overview of how to get started on your catchment management plan.

A list of suggested monitoring kit used by catchment partnerships, for monitoring primarily water quality, but also some biological monitoring supplies.

A list of funding sources for natural flood risk management projects.

As part of the Cumbria Flood Action Plan, the Cumbria Strategic Flood Partnership hosted a series of workshops in 2017 for experts and practitioners to share with partners, stakeholders and communities across Cumbria, their current understanding and knowledge on a number of topics critical to managing flood risk on a catchment wide basis.