Locate out-wintered stock and sacrifice areas away from watercourses
Reduce sediment load in watercourses
Improved spawning grounds for fish
Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - improve habitat and management
Reduce flooding
Reduce the amount of manure washed off fields into watercourses
Prevent manure from entering watercourses
Reduce losses of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) to water
Reduced faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) in water
Improve water quality - biological
Avoid substances with a high BOD entering watercourses
Improve surface water quality (chemical) - other
Reduced phosphorus in water
Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients
Reduced eutrophication
Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts
Reduce losses of nitrogen fertiliser via surface run-off
Reduced nitrogen in water
Reduced eutrophication
Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts
Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients