14-05-2025
How beavers can help win the fight against floods in Lincolnshire
After weeks of dry weather, the trickle of water in the West Glen River does not look as though it could cause havoc. But during Storm Henk in January last year it took only a few hours for this stream to become a torrent, inundating a garden centre in the Lincolnshire village of Baston.
Archie Struthers, chief executive of the nature restoration company Nattergal, said the West Glen is a prime example of the way in which Britain's water courses have been mismanaged — straightened and deepened to whoosh rainwater away from farmland as quickly as possible.
Struthers wants to turn this river into an example of how to manage water better and to reduce the risk of flood at a time when climate change
