Farmers Guardian details how Severn Trent Water has recently reviewed the success of its catchment management trials. Managing catchments upstream of drinking water abstraction points could help to limit metaldehyde losses to water.
Results show that managing catchments upstream of drinking water solve many problems currently posed by metaldehyde and according so a spokesperson from Severn Trent Water, significant improvements in water quality have been achieved. One of the approaches being trialled is ‘Farmers as producers of clean water’ and is being expanded into a further catchment for the coming cropping year.
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The project encourages growers to work together in the catchment and make their own management decisions, rather than follow those governed by Severn Trent, says the water company itself. The scheme allows farmers to choose options to reduce metaldehyde that are best suited to their farm business.
A second project encourages farmers to use an alternative active ingredient for slug control, being ferric phosphate, with the aim of producing a metaldehyde-free catchment. With some 90 per cent of farmers in the catchment involved, farmers must store all chemicals, including pesticides, safely. As well as providing farmers with a range of plastic water tanks, Enduramaxx manufactures rugged horizontal tanks and vertical storage tanks to store chemicals in safe and optimum conditions.
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http://www.enduramaxx.co.uk/catchment-trials-show-improvements-in-water-quality-2014-08-27/
