Dove Catchment Partnership Weir Removal Assessment Sheet – 1st DRAFT 24.6.2015
Part A – Desk Study
1. Basic Information
River/stream
Weir name
Your name
email
Nearest gauging station
(link to EA website)
WFD Water Body
National Grid ref
Organisation
Phone
2. Ownership, Rights and Responsibilities
Discussed?
(Y/N)
Owner
Fishing Rights
Protected area eg SSSI, SAC
(link to NE website)
Protected structure (link to
?)
Planning Authority (Local
Authority or Peak Park)
Main river?
Not main river? Lead Flood
Authority
View
Environment Agency
Derbyshire/Staffordshire
CC
3. Surroundings. Please sketch a map showing the site and approximate distances to: Other weirs, buildings,
roads or footpaths, pipes and utilities …… Providing notes to describe them is helpful.(what else should be on
this list?)
Part B. Site Information
1. Basic Information
Weir name
Flow conditions
low-medium-high-spate
Your name
Date
Safety information…..be careful…..
Grid Reference
Organisation
2. Site plan. Please draw a plan of the site below. Show the shape of the weir, bank reinforcements,
surrounding structures, trees, vegetation. Draw to scale and/or add dimensions. Show channel width at the
weir, upstream and downstream (are there standard abbreviations?). Please append photos as well.
3. Long section. Please sketch the weir giving dimension (or approx. dimensions) in particular for the eight of
the weir (H)), the length that it impounds upstream (I), the length of visible sediment deposit behind the
weir (S). Add labels to show what each element if made of and anything else of note. Please append photos
as well.
4. Bank and Bed Materials
Bank material: Soil - subsoil - rock -clay-silt-sand-gravel-cobbles-boulders
Reinforcements: stone - brick - sheet piling – concrete - etc
Upstream bed material: clay-silt-sand-gravel-cobbles-boulders
Downstream bed material
5. Sediment retained by the weir
Estimated volume of sediment = 0.5 weir height x 0.5 channel width at weir x length of visible sediment deposit
= 0.5_____m x 0.5 _____m x _____m
= ______m3 (is this a reasonable approximation?)
6. Possible contaminants
Any present or past industry nearby or upstream?
Possible agricultural pollution?
Organic matter
……
7. Benefits and risks
I would like to remove this weir if possible for the following reasons:
The risks could be:
8. Monitoring
Are you aware of any data that can help to monitor the situation before and, if appropriate, after weir removal?