DTC provides a hugely valuable mechanism that enables and encourages the sharing of scientific practice and evidence to support effective catchment management. Click here for more information

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• DTC Conference – report and links to presentations
  • How can we easily understand the ecological responses of aquatic organisms to changes in pollutant fluxes and flows?
  • In what form are nutrients transported to the river… and does it matter?
  • How do different river catchments transport pollutants in response to rainfall?
  • Where does the sediment come from?
  • What drives the attitudes of farmers towards adoption of diffuse pollution mitigation measures?
  • What technical support tools can we provide to help with planning effective mitigation measures?
  • Do cover crops in winter mitigate nitrate pollution?
  • How effective are control measures to exclude livestock from watercourses on faecal pollution?
  • How can ‘slowing the flow’ help in diffuse pollution mitigation?
• The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data to be free from September 2015!
• Using a biobed as a measure to reduce point-source pesticide inputs into surface water and groundwater
• Stakeholder engagement in the Wensum
• Recent and future climate trends in the Eden, Avon and Wensum DTC catchments
• Agricultural Catchments Programme, Ireland – reprised
• Eden catchment MP Rory Stewart – becomes Junior Environment Minister