The River Tweed - Water and Carbon Cycle
- Created by: Fr3ya535
- Created on: 18-02-19 13:00
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- The River Tweed
- length - 97 miles
- Industries
- fishing - worth £18m to the economy - supports 500 local jobs
- agriculture
- 80% of the catchment area is used for farming
- hill sheep
- beef farming
- tourism - walking and cycling trails
- recreation
- Water supply
- series of river works and reservoirs
- supplies water to the two main water companies
- supplies water to cities such as Edinburgh
- Habitat
- home to various fish and animals such as otters
- various wetland environments
- multiple species of birds
- Flood protection
- protecting wetlands - act as flood storage
- planting trees in the uplands - increase inception storage
- reinstating meanders - to slow flow
- planned to leave boulders and debris in small streams but clear larger channels to increase channel capacity
- flows in the border region of Scotland and northern England
- dynamic system - fast flowing boulder-strewn streams to a meandering channel with a sandy bed.
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