The first pieces of large wood using dying Ash are felled for #riverrestoration on the Avon in Wiltshire. Wood to be moved and placed in-channel alongside imported gravel to restore this straightened and dredged channel Wessex Rivers Trust

Our project adding gravels & boulders to a canalised river section has been a success! 🐟

✔️ Boosted oxygen & flow patterns
✔️ Reintroduced river gravels & boulders
✔️ Ideal for fish spawning & water quality

#RiverRestoration #FishHabitat #EnvironmentalImpact

The incredible power of an incised river!

#FlumeFriday Energy and Environment Institute Umeå University #riverrestoration Total Environment Simulator Pauline Delorme Stuart McLelland 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈

I'm excited to share our paper just published in JGR: Earth Surface.

We find that high floodplain vegetation density enhances bed topographic complexity, a target of many river restoration projects.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

#flumefriday #riverrestoration

Work has begun on our biggest ever river restoration project! 🎯

Over 2km of new #chalkstream channel is being created – along with meanders, floodplain connectivity and habitat diversity 😍

#RiverStiffkey #riverrestoration #habitatcreation

The Wessex Rivers Trust team had to graft hard at short notice to cross the finish line, but this old mill leat is finally on its way to becoming a re-naturalised chalk stream habitat.

Next summer it’ll be a riot of plants, invertebrates, and fish 💚💙

#ChalkStream #RiverRestoration

Before and After images of transforming a previously heavily dredged section of Cranleigh Waters in Surrey using channel narrowing, gravel bed installation, bank grading and biodegradable erosion matting to aid vegetation regrowth #riverrestoration

Another example of woody debris “fallen tree analogues” in a Wessex Rivers Trust #RiverRestoration

The upstream limbs scour-clean the riverbed (creating spawning habitat), and also deflect flows across and under the downstream trees (providing nursery habitat) #ChalkStream #Salmon

Urban Riverfly surveying today on the Old Lea, Hackney. Unlike terrestrial inverts the aquatic ones can be active thru winter and so, so must their surveyors! Riverfly Partnership

Thanks to Lewis for ur support 💚

#oldlea #hackney #riverrestoration

Mae'r Tîm Adfer Afonydd yn prysur asesu nifer o rwystrau posibl i fudo pysgod ar y Dwyfor.
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The River Restoration Team are busy out on the Dwyfor to assess multiple potential barriers to fish migration.
#dwyfor #riverrestoration #fishbarrier

Another significant milestone to remove Klamath Dams. Successful drawdown initiated at Copco No 1.
All reservoirs are on target to be drained by the end of February.
We are moving ever closer to the vision of a free-flowing river.
#RiverRestoration #RestoringBalance

🌊 The J.C. Boyle Drawdown is officially underway! #undammingklamath #ridgestoriffles #RiverRestoration

Bring out the machines!

This is a sheeps foot roller, and our contractors Dinsdale Moorland, are using it to level 30cm of soil at a time so that we can form the embankment around the new, bigger floodplain.

#WigglesworthHall #RiverRenaturalisation #RiverRestoration

Today we visited the Bereg Water Reservoir, built to protect civilisation from floods. But could now used to actually mitigate droughts 🤔…. #riverrestoration #naturebasedsolutions

Nothing better than connecting up a new river channel after years of design and hard work to make it happen!
Connecting the River Avon #chalkstream at West Chisenbury #riverrestoration #wetlandcreation #nutrientnutrality
Wilts Wildlife Trust Defence Infrastructure Organisation National Highways FiveRivers

Our Everyone's Evenlode team had their smiles on as they squelched through Cornwell Estate to see the major river restoration work and wetland creations!
Our Farming in Protected Landscapes scheme co-funded the project, with a grant of £146k.

#Cotswolds #RiverRestoration

Excited to be able to share my poster at #SEFS13 on #riverrestoration . Currently exploring UK pre- and post-project monitoring to help develop an 'ecological toolbox'. Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) Loughborough Geography and Environment #PhD #presentation #freshwater #ecology

Tackled the top half of the Pymmes Brook last week with Charly Hawkins and Thames21! Lots of concrete as usual, but some fantastic opportunities for #riverrestoration . Visited Arnos Park too, Environment AgencySE colleagues are going to be doing some great work here! #lovethelea

Researchers from James Hutton Institute (@HuttonEBS) and University of Aberdeen are leading efforts to restore river woodlands in #Scotland .

Learn how this project is paving the way for biodiversity conservation and #climateresilience .

#RiverRestoration

More: bit.ly/3JGHbhF

First (unwelcome) sighting this year of invasive, non-native Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera). Easier to pull out now than in a few months. #HackneyMarshes #RiverRestoration Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston #INNS #himalayanbalsam Thames21