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Advice Guidance to support catchment management Management Full management and delivery of work programmes Delivery Delivery of agreed work programmes Bespoke All work tailored to meet your needs Advice Management Delivery Guidance and recommendations to support you in designing a delivery plan including preliminary work to identify the key characteristics of the catchment, engagement activities, behaviour and attitude assessments, delivery requirements and communication options. Project management and delivery of full catchment plans including preliminary work (catchment walkovers, characterisation reports, etc), engagement, technical events and farm visits, and supporting work (newsletters, surveys, etc). Delivery of an agreed work plan including engagement work, technical events and visits, and communication activities. • Engagement meetings and events • Attitude and behaviour studies • Walkovers • Characterisation reports • Surveys • Assessments • Communication and promotion activities • Intensive farm support • Monitoring visits • Benchmarking Promar Catchment Management Support Services and Activities • Farmer discussion groups • Stakeholder meetings • Focus farm events • Technical training events • Study tours • Demonstration events • Best practice events • Better engagement with farmers, land managers and farm advisers on diffuse water pollution from agriculture • Greater understanding of farmer and land manager concerns about diffuse water pollution from agriculture • Improved communication and promotion of client objectives • Improved farm management • Farm infrastructure guidance • Nutrient management planning • Pesticide handling, storage and application advice • Bio-bed, bio-filter and pesticide disposal advice • Machinery calibration • Farm waste management planning • Soil husbandry advice • Water management advice • Whole farm assessments • Water auditing, management and sources advice • Soil, water and manure sampling and analysis Activities Visits Events Outcomes What we do Photograph - courtesy of http://www.freeimages.com
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AdviceGuidance to
support catchment management
ManagementFull management
and delivery of work programmes
DeliveryDelivery of agreed work programmes
BespokeAll work tailored to
meet your needs
Advice
Management
Delivery
Guidance and recommendations to support you in designing a delivery plan including preliminary work to identify the key characteristics of the catchment, engagement activities, behaviour and attitude assessments, delivery requirements and communication options.
Project management and delivery of full catchment plans including preliminary work (catchment walkovers, characterisation reports, etc), engagement, technical events and farm visits, and supporting work (newsletters, surveys, etc).
Delivery of an agreed work plan including engagement work, technical events and visits, and communication activities.
•Engagementmeetings and events•Attitudeandbehaviour studies•Walkovers•Characterisationreports•Surveys•Assessments•Communicationand promotion activities• Intensivefarmsupport•Monitoringvisits•Benchmarking
Promar Catchment Management Support Services and Activities
•Farmerdiscussiongroups•Stakeholdermeetings•Focusfarmevents•Technicaltrainingevents•Studytours•Demonstrationevents•Bestpracticeevents
•Betterengagementwith farmers, land managers and farm advisers on diffuse water pollution from agriculture•Greaterunderstandingof farmer and land manager concerns about diffuse water pollution from agriculture• Improvedcommunication and promotion of client objectives• Improvedfarmmanagement
•Farminfrastructureguidance•Nutrientmanagement planning•Pesticidehandling,storage and application advice•Bio-bed,bio-filterand pesticide disposal advice•Machinerycalibration•Farmwastemanagement planning•Soilhusbandryadvice•Watermanagementadvice•Wholefarmassessments•Waterauditing,management and sources advice•Soil,waterandmanure sampling and analysis
Activities Visits Events Outcomes
What we do
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Promar’s bespoke catchment management packagePromar is in a unique position to offer a comprehensive package to supportworkwithfarmersandlandmanagers.Improvingwaterqualityby engaging farmers and land managers to address diffuse water pollution from agriculture is at the heart of what we do. Recent projects have included characterisation and evaluation, behaviour and attitude assessment, engagementwork,on-farmdelivery,andreportingandpromotion.
Delivery of a tailored project for a water company to understand the use of metaldehyde within priority catchments and why it was having an increasing impact on water quality.
Desk-basedresearchanddataanalysiswerecompletedto guide delivery in the target catchments, 30 technical visits on pesticide and nutrient management planning were delivered, and a summary report produced.
Reducing the impact of diffuse pollution on priority catchments
Twodiffusewaterpollutionfromagricultureassessmentswere delivered for the public sector. Catchmentcharacterisation, walkovers and detailed desk-basedresearch and data analysis were undertaken to complete these projects.
Anengagementprojectwasdesignedanddelivered tosupport the involvement of farmers and land managers in thedeliveryofthiswork.Asaresult,technicalvisitswereprovidedon35 farmsandafinal reportwaspreparedusingFARMSCOPER.
Catchment evaluation and engagement
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Contact Promar’s Environment TeamEmail: [email protected]
Telephone: 01270 616800
Clients we’ve worked with
Thames Water. United Utilities.Severn Trent Water. Natural England.
Catchment Sensitive Farming. Livestock NorthWest. DairyCo.WRAP. University of Reading.
Environment Agency. Realza Capital.Aberystwyth University.
Defra. Tesco.
Anoutsourcedcatchmentprojectincludingco-ordinationand delivery management was provided for a government organisation.This included engagementwork, technicalfarm visits and events, and communications work.
Catchmentco-ordinationwasprovided for22months.During this time, three newsletters were produced, 140 visitswerecompletedand12eventsweredeliveredorattended.
Catchment management
Aqualitativeproject forawatercompanytodevelopabaseline of opinions and behaviours towards diffuse water pollution from agriculture.
Engagement meetings were held in targetcatchments to support farmer involvement. Interviews with 28 farmers and land managers were completed and a report prepared based on the findingsofthisworktoguidethecompany’sfutureplans.
Farmer behaviour and attitudes towards diffuse
water pollution
