Management of main river and secondary ditches at Castlemartin Corse (SSSI)

National Trust wants to reinstate routine bank-side mowing, de-silting, dredging and de-weeding of the two main rivers and other smaller secondary ditches on the corse and neighbouring agricultural land.The objectives of this work are two-fold.1. To improve the connectivity and flow characteristics of the ditches to aid water-transfer and drainage of adjacent agricultural land; and2. To create the diversity of habitats (different stages of succession) within the ditches from open water to fully vegetated, to maximi...