You can find out more about the Project from the videos below:
This short film, created in early 2025, outlines the history and achievements of the UNESCO-recognised Eddleston Water Project.
This webinar is titled “The Eddleston Water project – what has worked, and what have we learned about Natural Flood management and how to deliver it?” and was recorded in December 2023.
This webinar is titled “The Eddleston Water Project: 10 years of implementing, monitoring and empirical analysis of catchment scale NFM measures” and was recorded in 2021. (Please note webinar starts at 04:30)
This video was produced in 2019 collaboration with the international project Building with Nature (BwN), funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union’s INTERREG North Sea Region Programme. BwN recognises that natural processes help to keep us safe against coastal erosion and flooding. The Eddleston Water Project is one of BwN’s “living laboratories”, helping scientists and policymakers get the evidence they need to make the best decisions for flood risk management.
As the Building with Nature programme came to an end, we were asked in June 2020 to present a webinar on our stakeholder engagement work in the Eddleston catchment. Tweed Forum’s Hugh Chalmers and Dundee University’s Professor Chris Spray presented an overview of stakeholder engagement in the Eddleston Water Project and what was achieved over the last four years.
This video was created by our project partner, the British Geological Society (BGS). It outlines work to re-meander a section of the Eddleston Water in 2016, connecting two re-meandered sections at Cringletie and Lake Wood. The meanders are designed to provide natural flood alleviation downstream. BGS scientists are using repeat drone surveys as well as sediment capture to monitor the evolution of the new meanders over time, and to study river bank erosion and sediment transport in a dynamic system.
This drone footage shows re-meandering of a previously channelised section of the Eddleston Water, near Cringletie (about 3 miles upstream of Peebles), in summer 2013. (Note there is no audio.)
This short video, released in 2013, provides some background information on natural flood management. It’s an excerpt from a more in-depth video, below.
This longer-form video, also released in 2013, outlines the concepts underpinning natural flood management, and uses real-life examples from the Eddleston Water Project to explain how NFM can benefit communities at risk of flooding. Two useful links referred to in the two natural flood management videos above are the flooding section of the SEPA website and the flooding section of the Scottish Government website.