StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: active catchment management

In action again - heavy rain (and strong winds) from a slowly moving frontal depression. This downpour was a couple of days before "Storm Gertrude" was identified / named. The sheep are more sheltered by the trees up there on that slope and the ground is slightly better drained and their routes across are under water..

The small beck (Slaty Sike) to the left of the road has had a number of small dams built across it, to impound water and slow the downstream progress of a peak flow event as part of an active catchment management scheme for Haltwhistle Burn. see notes. link to the project website - research.ncl.ac.uk/haltwhistleburn The sheep are trying to shelter in the lee of the trees, they are on the steeper slope, which is slightly less sodden.