{"id":150,"date":"2019-10-13T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2022-02-22T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:53:06","slug":"150-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/150-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>WRMP  Resources Page &#8211; Field Trips, Links &amp; Downloads<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you\nfor participating in the Louth Leader Partnership Water Resources Management\nTraining Programme. We hope you are enjoying the course so far. As promised, We\nare writing to you to confirm the dates for the two field trips and also for\nthe small streams training day, which includes a demonstration of how\nfreshwater invertebrates can be used to assess water quality and how to&nbsp;\nidentify the key indicator species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ballinderry\nRivers Trust <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ballinderryriver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/ballinderryriver.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Trip\n1 \u2013 Saturday, 16<sup>th<\/sup> November 2019&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first\nfield trip is to Ballinderry Trust, County Antrim, where we will meet the\nDirector, Mark Horton. Mark has worked extensively with community and farming\ngroups in the Ballinderry catchment and has achieved great progress in building\nawareness of the importance of good water quality within a rurally based\ncommunity. He will describe some of their more successful projects and we will\nalso visit some of the river enhancement works which they\u2019ve carried out in\npartnership with local farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark is\nthe main contact person in Ireland for those interested in establishing Rivers\nTrusts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>East\nWicklow Rivers Trust<\/strong>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wicklowrivers.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wicklowrivers.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Trip\n2 \u2013 Saturday, 30<sup>th<\/sup> November 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our second\nfield trip will be to the River Vartry in County Wicklow to meet members of the\nfledgling East Wicklow Rivers Trust.&nbsp;&nbsp; The founding members the\nTrust, such as Luke Drea who will be our host for our visit, were involved in a\nmajor planning appeal some years ago. They organised a very comprehensive and\nsophisticated campaign from amongst their local community to object to aspects of\na planning application, which in their view would have greatly depleted the\noverall volume of water in the River Vartry (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/regionals\/wicklowpeople\/news\/vartry-treatment-plant-upgrade-is-given-the-goahead-36495478.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/regionals\/wicklowpeople\/news\/vartry-treatment-plant-upgrade-is-given-the-goahead-36495478.html<\/a>). Their experience in organising\nand mobilising interest groups in their catchment to tackle some very technical\naspects of water abstraction and water abstraction legislation is quite unique\nand hopefully will be of great interest to you and to your local\ncommunity.&nbsp; The EWRT have also recently applied to the County Wicklow\nPartnership (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicklowpartnership.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.wicklowpartnership.ie\/<\/a>)&nbsp;\nfor quite substantial&nbsp; funding to raise&nbsp; awareness of water and water\nquality issues across County Wicklow and to train groups of volunteers in\nassessing the water quality in stream and rivers in their area. By the time we\nmeet with Luke and his colleagues they will know if this application has been\nsuccessful and can outline to us how they plan to roll out the programme across\nthe county.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>River Dee, Glyde or Fane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Trip 3 &#8211; Small Streams Training Day \u2013 Saturday, 7<sup>th<\/sup> December (10.00 to\n13.00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small streams training day will take place on a\ntributary of the Dee, Glyde or Fane in early December. The exact location will\nbe dependent on water levels closer to the time. Since it is an outdoor event,\nin early winter, we will confine the stream visit to the morning of the 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nDecember.&nbsp; Martin and I will be available following the demonstration and\ntraining, to provide additional advice and could visit a specific location or\ntwo in your area that you thought might be suitable for a community project or\nindeed a location where you felt water quality was an issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Travel Arrangements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will arrange bus transport for field visits 1 and 2 but\nwill ask you to arrange your own transport to the location of the small streams\ntraining.&nbsp; The bus will collect you at a designated location (around 09.00\nto 09.30) on the day of each field visit and drop you back between 17.00 and\n18.00. Lunch will be provided. In the case of the stream training we will\nensure that the chosen location has ample parking in the vicinity. Exact\ndetails of the above field trips in terms of: meeting points, times of\ndeparture and return, transport, outdoor clothing and footwear etc. will follow\nin a few weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photos: <\/strong>We\nplan to take photographs during the field visits. If you would prefer not to be\nphotographed or to have your photo used in reporting on the course or\npublicising future courses, please do let us know.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Health issues:&nbsp; <\/strong>If you have any health issues we should be aware of, please do let us\nknow, in confidence, in advance of the training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RMTP Website &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that over the next week or so we will be\nplacing a <strong>Resources Page<\/strong> on the Water Resources Management Training Programme website. This page\nwill include useful links to information on water resources and water resources\nmanagement in the Louth area, pdfs of selected slides from the training to\ndate, information on risk assessment and also a list of project areas \/ themes\nyou might consider undertaking with your community group.&nbsp; Once the page\nis up and running please do please visit it regularly for updates etc. Martin\nand I would be pleased to include any additional material you feel might be\nuseful to you in developing water awareness programmes \/ specific projects in\nyour area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Making contact with participants <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In circulating this update we\u2019ve used the contact details\nsupplied with each of the application forms.&nbsp; Not everybody provided\ncontact details. Could you please make sure that friends or colleagues on the\ncourse are made aware of this circular and if they contact Ken we can include \/\nupdate&nbsp; their contact details on the circulation list. If colleagues \/\nfriends&nbsp; who have not yet participated on the course wish to join us for\nPhase 2 of the course in Blackrock Community Centre, Dundalk, &nbsp;on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\nNovember or on any of the subsequent field trips, please do get them to contact\nKen in advance of joining the course. They would be very welcome! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to meeting up with you again soon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ken and Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Basic-RA-form.pdf\">Basic-RA-form &#8211; http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Basic-RA-form.pdf<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Basic-RA-form.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Risk-Health-and-Safety-Oct-2019-kw-1-1.pdf\">Risk-Health-and-Safety-Oct-2019-kw-1-1 &#8211; http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Risk-Health-and-Safety-Oct-2019-kw-1-1.pdf<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/louthwatersproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Risk-Health-and-Safety-Oct-2019-kw-1-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRMP Resources Page &#8211; Field Trips, Links &amp; Downloads Thank you for participating in the Louth Leader Partnership Water Resources Management Training Programme. We hope you are enjoying the course so far. As promised, We are writing to you to confirm the dates for the two field trips and also for the small streams training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/louth.waters-project.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}