Blog

Keep up to date on the project with our regular blog posts from across the PACCo team.

A day in the life of a Graduate Engineer on the PACCo project by Ed McIntyre

Ed is a Graduate Engineer who joined the Environment Agency’s graduate programme in 2021. He obtained a first-class honours in ...

Introducing the results of the PACCo visitor / user surveys for both the Lower Otter and Saâne Valleys

An overview of the results of our surveys is now available here (and in the reports section of the PACCo ...

Stakeholder engagement: Reflections from the PACCo climate adaptation project by Sam Bridgewater

It is natural towards the end of a project to become reflective and ask yourself whether you are happy with ...

Saâne, sea and site seeing for the PACCo team all partner’s meeting by Becky Price

On Monday 4 September 2022, the English partners set sail to Normandy and the Saâne Valley to visit their French ...

Bridging the gap between intervention and restoration: the history of White Bridge and the Lower Otter Valley by Charlotte Hodgson, Estate Archivist

As the Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP) moves towards its final exciting stages before completion, involving the opening of the ...

The PACCo journey: reflections on a managed realignment and adaptation to climate change project by Sam Bridgewater

This summer, after 15 years of planning and an immense collective effort, a breach will be made in a flood ...

Valuing the benefits of managed realignment and estuary restoration: Using a natural capital approach

This blog post by Sam Bridgewater gives some background to the natural capital valuation approaches used in PACCo to assess ...

Saâne Valley site visit for the Clinton Devon Estates PACCo team

On Wednesday 8th June, seven members of the Estate team boarded the Seven Sisters ferry at Newhaven, destination Dieppe. The ...

Monitoring Fish Populations on the lower Otter Estuary

By Kendal Archer On 28th to 30th September last year (2021), the PACCo team welcomed national expert in marine and ...

Basse Saâne 2050: three projects to prepare the future

The territorial project for the lower Saâne valley now has a generic name, Basse Saâne 2050, and the three main ...

Archaeological finds in the Lower Otter

By Greg Chuter, Senior Archaeologist, Environment Agency Archaeological investigations as part of the Lower Otter Restoration Project have identified interesting ...

A glimpse of the future: Our visit to WWT Steart Marshes

By Kim Strawbridge, East Devon Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust  June 2021  There is no doubt that the project to reconnect ...