Case study of a river catchment at a local scale: River Brock, Lancashire

Geography water and carbon

How long is the The River Brock

17\.8km

Local forest name

Forest of Bowland

There is __ on the high moors while the lower catchment is overlain by ____ ____

peat

Boulder clay

what agricultural college has a liscence to abstract water from the area

Myerscough Agricultural College

The most serious flooding to affect the village of St Michael’s on Wyre was in occured when?

October 1980

In the area of ____ _______ to the north of the River Wyre the Environment Agency constructed a ______ _________ _____ at Catterall for a one-in-fifty-years flood.

St Michael’s

flood storage basin

the flood storage basin at catteral has a capacity to store what amount of floodwater

1\.7 million m3

what changes were made to embankments in the lowland area close to the River Wyre.

Embankments were raised and strengthened

The local council maintains a store of how many sandbags

2000

The river brock contributes to the floodign of what other river

the river Wyre

what feature of brock valley means that flooding is not often a problem until the river approaches the confluence with the river wyre

its steepness

Although the river is embanked before reaching St Michael’s on Wyre, the agricultural nature of the land use makes it low priority for what government agency

the environment agency

near the confluence in the winter of 2008 what record level did the water reach

4\.29 m

what county does the river brock run through

**Lancashire in England.**

Give an example of some of the rivers tributaries

* Lickhurst Brook
* Huds Brook
* Winsnape Brook
* Clough Heads Brook

what is the population of St Michael's on Wyre

\~ 604