SMURF
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SMURF (Sustainable Management of Urban Rivers and Floodplains) was a three year project based on the River Tame in the West Midlands that started in August 2002. The project was led by the Environment Agency in partnership with Birmingham City Council, Severn Trent Water, H R Wallingford, Staatliches Umweltamt Herten (Environmental State Office Herten), the University of Birmingham and King's College London.
The River Tame in the West Midlands - specifically the urban area of the river catchment that includes Birmingham and a large part of the Black Country - is a typical example of an urban river. It is polluted, heavily modified by culverting, straightening, re-routing and with concrete banks and few natural features.
SMURF aimed to tackle these environmental problems on the Tame by integrating the planning and management of land-use, water quality, ecology and flooding. The methods developed by the SMURF project are now being used as a model for work on similar rivers throughout the UK and the European Community.
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