Yeah no and I was hoping that we could do that just to to kick us off to give a kind of feel for the Tweed Forum was to look at the when I was researching the Tweed Forum one of the big kind of projects was the Edelson water project and I was wondering if we could talk about that it's quite a successful long-term study of natural flood management techniques can you tell us a bit about this project the the monitoring of this and maybe some of the kind of exciting findings?

Well, this is a project set up about 2010-ish, about that time, where a director and Professor Chris Spree from Dunn University were talking about trying to get together a sort of demonstration catchment to try and promote natural flood management.

Natural flood management is really just things like measures you can put in place to help slow the flow of water, like planting trees or native woodlands, restoring peatlands, putting in leaky barriers, like little beaver dams effectively.

Putting in water storage ponds, river restoration such as remiandering rivers, that kind of thing.

So there's a number of techniques that were well known actually for slowing the flow of water down into the towns that flood in the Borders.

And Peebles was one of them.

So the Edison Water Catchment is just at the top of Peebles, if you like.

And and how do you see this in the future? You know, is it a case that more private funding is going to be needed to continue working? And where can you see this potentially coming from?

Yeah no and I was hoping that we could do that just to to kick us off to give a kind of feel for the Tweed Forum was to look at the when I was researching the Tweed Forum one of the big kind of projects was the Edelson water project and I was wondering if we could talk about that it's quite a successful long-term study of natural flood management techniques can you tell us a bit about this project the the monitoring of this and maybe some of the kind of exciting findings?

Well, this is a project set up about 2010-ish, about that time, where a director and Professor Chris Spree from Dunn University were talking about trying to get together a sort of demonstration catchment to try and promote natural flood management.

Natural flood management is really just things like measures you can put in place to help slow the flow of water, like planting trees or native woodlands, restoring peatlands, putting in leaky barriers, like little beaver dams effectively.

Putting in water storage ponds, river restoration such as remiandering rivers, that kind of thing.

So there's a number of techniques that were well known actually for slowing the flow of water down into the towns that flood in the Borders.

And Peebles was one of them.

So the Edison Water Catchment is just at the top of Peebles, if you like.

And and how do you see this in the future? You know, is it a case that more private funding is going to be needed to continue working? And where can you see this potentially coming from?