{"id":701133,"date":"2026-07-20T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701133\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:57:09","slug":"leaky-dams-on-holcombe-moor-to-stop-flooding-and-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701133\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaky dams on Holcombe Moor to stop flooding and wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leaky dams are built using wooden posts in gullies on the hillside, leading to a rise in the water table, which help to reduce the risk of moorland fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dams can also be made using stone, heather or peat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The re-wetting of the moors by creating the dams also helps to preserve habitats for wading birds such as the Dunlin, the Golden Plover and the Lapwing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freya Bowden, a Master&#8217;s student who is studying moorland management at the University of Manchester, said: &#8220;The dams slow down the water, so it doesn&#8217;t reach the catchment areas downstream as quickly and that can prevent flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The recent wildfires have been awful but by re-wetting the peat lands we are improving bio-diversity and helping to mitigate the spread of the flames&#8221;,  added the 22 year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaky dams are built using wooden posts in gullies on the hillside, leading to a rise in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}