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[50.0°to 61.0° N : United Kingdom] : Carbon Transitions- 2020/21
John Cook, Ben Pollock + Laura Nica
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![Floodplain rewilding and managed flooding](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d950d1801a84d64ada30a25e9af7e00c1881f9c6d8d1ee1353ab47d87cc5b4e4/7.jpg)
Carbon Sequestering Systems Through Flood Plains
Caen Hill Locks, Devizes, UK
The proposal works with fluxes and flows. It introduces a beta intervention linked to an existing canal as a source of power. This will be used to help prove how affective this model is for green urban planning and a showcase for climate adaptation technology, which can then lead on to a national scale. The site Caen Hill Locks invites an opportunity for UK’s flood defences and a chance to introduce a new habitat with surface water conditions. Canals are re-purposed as they double as storm drains leading excess storm water in to the rivers/harbours.
The proposal has three phases:
Phase 1- Non-disaster Mode: Carbon levels are tested in soil and air. Towers to operate and generate energy and regulate flood plains for new habitats to survive.
Phase 2 - Disaster Mode: Canal acts as storm drain navigating excess water to proposed locks. Towers generate energy from force of water, flood plains absorb excess water, carbon cycle phenomenon occurs in background.
Phase 3 - Post Disaster Mode: Carbon levels are tested in soil and air and compared to early data. Evidence will be gathered to prove beta test is successful.
![Water Cycle Energy](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f51e778e9e403405bac43ca7be264e1d58249a0207700775f1f1b8ae148b6e86/1.jpg)
![Canal Energy – Fluid and Sediment Interaction](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f80129976cf595bb55f70fac48e598ef9ef4a5488a14eb21f6e4e62b0e46088c/2.jpg)
![Meta Diagram Canal Energy and Flood Plains](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0941be4096af7e58e26ad669e79c972d24aa7d05bd7ffe33bb800c63c47b550c/4.jpg)
![Flood Simulations](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d95f5dc478b974d576886e2ffb0160a31511619a84af34583dc2cc45ec49693a/3.jpg)
![Floodplain Master Plan](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43d909537417908ae50cc3f781935cd2aca29eba0601476964ab176c87d0bde9/5.jpg)
![Floodplain Activation](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/967c998c0724e2f30af47ca890df22e9af4dee5a85ccb3ad445c9d961efb658a/6.jpg)